For Sean Goode, executive director of Choose 180, safety means living in a community where your material needs are met among family and neighbors who understand and care for you, in a space absent of the promotion of racism and racist ideas.
And for Esther Lucero, president and CEO of the Seattle Indian Health Board, safety comes from living in a world without deep racial disparities; where one in three Native American women are not raped; where Native residents don’t have to navigate the world like they’re guests on the planet; where her community can call for support and police protection in times of need without experiencing fear about how officers will
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