By Scott Linesburgh, Stockton Record, August 17, 2020
Alayssia Townsell has heard the trauma of racial injustice in the worried voice of her younger brother.
The 19-year-old Stockton native and University of California, Los Angeles sophomore became a social justice activist in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, but the issue is very personal to her. She said she thinks often about a heartbreaking conversation with her 9-year-old brother, a fourth-grader who fears the injustices facing people of color.
“My Black brother wishes that he could change the color of his skin just so that he doesn’t have to worry about going outside and being killed,” Townsell said at a recent protest in downtown Stockton, one of the most diverse cities in America. “This is what I’m doing this for. I’m doing it for the generations after us.”
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