Passenger Seat Episode 10: Nothing Peaceful about Protest

On May 25, 2020, we all witnessed a murder. Together. It was traumatizing...And it stirred everything and everyone UP around the world. It was scary and people react differently to fear. George Floyd was only one year older than I. He was someone's child and I have three children. When he called for his mama, he summoned me. I couldn't think straight for three days. Then I finally got to work. James Arthur Baldwin said, "It is not a racial problem. It's a problem of whether or not you are willing to look at your life and be responsible for it. And THEN begin to change it." In this tenth episode of the 24-part docuseries, Passenger Seat, we learn more about what it looks like and means to people to PROTEST. This episode is entitled, "Nothing Peaceful about Protest." At the end of each day, I knew that I had been out there protesting myself...in order to interrogate myself and ultimately change my ways. I was not [internally...mentally or physically] at peace for 10 months. I left my home (children and husband) and went to find something. I'm still not sure what I was looking for. I packed minimally, but included was my camera and loads of film...to help me look. My memory is a bit of a lost cause without the use of a camera. When I take a picture, I remember everything about the moment in which I clicked the shutter...right down to the temperature of the air and the wind, rain or sunshine. I'm only one person in this universe, but it's worth sharing a little bit about how one person responded to fear. That's what the making of this docuseries helped me do. "Fear Awareness" of and for oneself. It's messy. And not linear. I'm still putting pieces together to understand myself better...in order to change. Tasha Miller, born in 1974 to a white family in the middle of Nebraska, created this video collage between July 2020 - January 2021 in Portland, Oregon. The collection of content and the creative organization OF it is an offering of one person's process in awakening to what it entails to be a participant in the American society...growing and changing. What the eyes see and the ears hear...during the process of fully appreciating one's own life AND the lives of others. To the point of standing up FOR them: This is the movement. The first episode of Passenger Seat was released on the day that Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd in an American court of law. Each episode thereafter is released weekly on Tuesdays (through October 2021).

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