Let us stop asking, "What is wrong with you?" And start asking, "What happened to you?"
The answer is radical empathy. The answer is culturally honest care. The answer is seeing a Black boy not as a future addict or a future felon, but as a future healer who just needs to heal himself first. black boy addictionz
Because your addictionz do not get the final word. You do. The road ahead is long. We cannot arrest our way out of this crisis. We cannot shame our way out. We cannot pray it away without also providing beds, therapists, and unconditional love. Let us stop asking, "What is wrong with you
You are not a failure. You are not a stereotype. You are not the voice memo your father never sent or the statistic your teachers expected. Because your addictionz do not get the final word