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As much as I want to condemn looting and rioting, I’ve always believed context is everything, and there’s no greater context than this. Unjust police killings and oppression of black people isn’t some new and recent problem (AND IT VERY CLEARLY HAS AND IS CONTINUING TO HAPPEN).
We are seeing generations of pent up frustration. We are seeing what happens when a man like Martin Luther King Jr. spends his whole life attacking the problem peacefully and is assassinated for it- the problem long outliving him and carrying on until today.
We’re seeing what happens when a man like Colin Kaepernick is ridiculed and black balled- the way he protested getting more attention than the problem he was fighting against. This is what happens when people are ignored; when people are told the “correct” way to respond before
we’ve even given them the basic respect of being a human being.
Stop caring more about the way victims react to their pain than bringing down the systemic racism that hunts them. Stop turning a blind eye to their sufferings while keeping an open ear for their mistakes.
Stop caring more about the way victims react to their pain than bringing down the systemic racism that hunts them. Stop turning a blind eye to their sufferings while keeping an open ear for their mistakes.
Stop caring more for institutions than regular human beings. This problem did not start with us today, it is something our ancestors dealt with and failed miserably. Change is still needed. Just because things seem better doesn’t mean there isn’t more needed.
America was founded on equality. Many of us like to say we’re true Americans or patriots, but this country has never truly been equal. Black Lives Matter, not because others don’t but because they are not viewed the same. They don’t enjoy some of our privileges.
They encounter situations others would never have to worry about. They deal with issues that attack their humanity. If you truly believed that all lives matter than you would stop pointing out some word choice technicality. You would not belittle their fight.
You would see that things are not equal and that just because you haven’t experienced these things and can’t imagine them ever happening, doesn’t mean they aren’t. You can disagree with some of my statements or points, but if you don’t have the empathy to see these crimes of
humanity and want to help support them in some way, then you should reconsider having a relationship with me. I will never stop fighting for others to have equality- to be treated as human- and I don’t want to be surrounded by people who think otherwise.
