Systemic Racism
Why do we continue to leap backwards?
Why is there senseless rioting and looting and violence?
You do not take your anger out on property. The buildings are burning in Minnesota. There are curfews all the fuck around even in Denver.
How did we get here?
We got here because we don't understand loving another human.We got here because black people have been battling systemic oppression from white people a fuck long of a time. We got here because of ignorance.
We got here because racism is a learned behavior.
The names already etched in history is horrendous. By senseless violence. Nipsey would be outraged over the death of George Floyd . Who has become a symbol of change in the USA. In our country where hypocrites and liars prevail. Systemic corruption bleeds into our society and institutions.
But racism is still extremely volatile and ugly. It is never right to be racist. There is a call on white people to join the fight of the minority and black people. And it is the right call. Those 4 officers that watched Floyd die as he could not breathe and he cried out "I Can't Breathe" should be all tried for blatant murder. Arresting one officer is not enough. All of them should die slow deaths and justice might be served. It is a heinous act to not do a goddamn thing, when a man is dying and subdued.
Above all we as a country continue to bleed internally. We are ravaged with Covid -19 in which life will never be the same. We are also headed to a big recession that is unavoidable. Care is the only thing that will get us through this time. God, is watching and we need to rely on him to pull us through. Because if we try any type of way , we will fail.
We need peace.
We need triumph.
We need love.
We need to fight for black lives matter.
I was guilty of putting all lives matter. But this is not the case. First black lives have to matter. Black people are not just athletes as Jalen Rose said. They are not just goddamn entertainers, rappers and football players, or politicians. They are human beings. Human beings. They don't deserve to just keep appearing on the news for ratings. They deserve to live without scrutiny, judgement, or fear of a white person calling the cops on them for being suspicious.
MLKJ junior already addressed this.
Malcolm X addressed this.
But is the United States listening? Are you listening ?
Are white people listening?
Let's fucking hope so. Because if not history is being made currently in the form of the wrong type of racist fucking ugly history, we need to correct this course.
There has gotta be a discussion. Trayvon's death was not enough? Breona Taylor? Arbery?
"It seems sickly fitting that those killed by police today are no longer transformed into the anointed or the condemned, but, thanks to more advanced and available technology, they become hashtags. With a flood of more videotaped killings, a hashtag seems a brutally meager epitaph, a mere declaration that a victim of police violence was once alive, human, and didn't merit having her or his life stolen.
Unfortunately, the increased visibility of trauma and death at the hands of cops isn't doing as much as it should be. The legacy of our increased exposure to black death has merely been the deadening of our collective senses." -Jamil Smith Senior Writer at Rolling Stone.
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/865261916/a-decade-of-watching-black-people-die
According to NPR.
