Justice For Sonya Massey GoFundMe Launched [Video]

Last Thursday, Sonya Massey’s father and uncle launched Justice for Sonya Massey, a GoFundMe page asking for the public’s help in raising $100,000. What other choice did they have? 

Death is a business and while its primary costs are brutally immeasurably–all those irreplaceable pieces that loved ones left to mourn find shattered before seeing them, tornado like, swept violently and forever away–there are real-world costs that are fixed, quantifiable and hard.

There’s the coffin, the burial clothes, the family travel, the funeral home and cemetery costs that add up without mercy or grace to the cost of lost wages from the unpaid time away from work. And none of those fees include what Sonya Massey’s family is asking for, the thing Black people need but are rarely afforded: mental healthcare and basic household support because of lost wages.

Because when death comes as it did to 32-year-old mother, Sonya Massey, when it …