All Lives Matter
All lives matter. All lives matter. In a society we live in, its almost like we found happiness and satisfaction once there is a division. Black Lives Matter. Blue Lives Matter. LGBTQ Lives Matter. Now don’t get it confused, are each of these movements essential? Well, yes of course, but saying one thing matters does not at all mean that another doesn't. Black Lives Matter. Not in a single way is that saying any other life is unnecessary. But if we all need a reality check that people of colors lives are tending to appear more and more like a bullseye for police officers. More and more we see headlines, “ 20 years old UNARMED African American SHOT DEAD by police”, we shouldn't let this be an exception. Mother’s losing sons to a bullet by a police officer that is supposed to be viewed as civilian protection should never be an exception. But as usual, we have become comfortable. Nothing about an unarmed 26- year old African American man being fatally shot dead by a police officer in his own home because she was “scared” should not leave us being comfortable. Please enlighten me as to what is such an intimidating characteristic of a black person that automatically programs your mind to scream “DANGER!”. What is so socially unacceptable about the attributes of an African American? Now as I stated before, BLM is not a movement that wants to persuade America that other races are not of importance. Here’s the kicker. We ask why there are many unhappy black children that act out and then we find them involved in the justice system but we don’t want to look at how the education system is set up. In my personal experience, I have been repeatedly taught on segregation and slavery and racism ever since around fifth grade. I remember almost having some type of animosity against the whiter race, but for what. As a proud African-American, yes African, I feel as if all of the very descriptive textbooks that highlight every flaw and reasoning as to why Africans are inferior, per se has driven many “black folks” to be so ignorant. “I’m black, not African”, well then what country are blacks from? Let me dig a little deeper, the popular television show, “Roots”, that made its first debut on January 23, 1977, was cast on a projector of my eighth grade world history class during the seventh hour. The whole class is excited, it’s “movie time”. Now at the time, I was one of two kids of the African-American race in the class roster. The show was based on the story of Alex Haley’s family history that takes you through the life of Kunta Kinte, who was a slave that was captured from New Guinea. See now if we were to really analyze the cause and effects of this in one way, of course, it is informational but the screening of whipping of a slave does more psychological damage then we really now. What message do we really want to send?
