I have a new woman to look up to, and she's 7 years old. Lives in Detroit, MI.

A 7-year-old-girl is being hailed as an “angel from heaven” and a hero for jumping in front of an enraged gunman, who pumped six bullets into the child as she used her body as a shield to save her mother’s life.

Alexis Goggins, a first-grader at Campbell Elementary School, is in stable condition at Children’s Hospital in Detroit recovering from gunshot wounds to the eye, left temple, chin, cheek, chest and right arm.

“She is an angel from heaven,” said Aisha Ford, a family friend for 15 years who also was caught up in the evening of terror.

I caught this recent article in the Washington Post via Jack and Jill Politics and Prometheus 6, and it's so wonderful. Using historical context and excellent analysis of social phenomena, Khalil Muhammad outlines the movement to transform larger social ills that affect all Americans into a cryptic pathology that targets poor black Americans for their incapabilities to Get Over Racism And Do Something Productive In Society (GORADSPIS). The main way this pathology continues for African-Americans and many other communities of color is maintaining the invisibility of whiteness and tacitly accepting "white values" as the gold standard of living well in