Justice is Unequally Distributed

The U.S. constitution says “land of the free”, but I don’t think that line applies to people of color, black people specifically speaking. How could it when thousands of innocent black men and women have died at the hands of police brutality and hate crimes? How could it when black men and women are discriminated against and pushed to the side for not conforming to white standards? This land is not in favor of black people, because we are not free. Yes, slavery was abolished nearly 400 years ago. Yes, the civil rights movement took place. Yes, we had a black president. YET, here we are still fighting for basic human rights! They scream “all lives matter”, but the cops who murdered Breonna Taylor, an innocent black woman, while sleeping in her home were acquitted of all charges. All lives matter, until a 13 year old autistic boy is shot 11 times. If all lives matter, then black people should not be dying at the hands of racist police officers. Is a black life not equal to that of a white person’s? We are human, and deserve to be seen and respected in the same spaces as white people. Since all lives matter, every cop, school, and place of business that is guilty of projecting racial biases and inflicting harm onto any black person should be logically punished to the highest extent, not given a slap on the wrist.

When we march, and peacefully protest, which we arbitrarily have the right to do so, it is done with pure intent to quantify the voices of the oppressed and magnify the institutionalizing conflicts that black people face day to day. We will not be silent about the foregoing racial agenda to diminish the power of the black race. As we constructively join hands across cities, states, and countries around the world, the light of our ancestors that was dimmed by the white race shines through us. Chains of racial trauma, passed from one generation to the next are being broken because we are in one allegiance to deteriorate this system of inordinate discrimination against people of color and actively bring forth change for the generations coming after us. We will not stop until laws are changed and positions of power removed from persons of evil motives. We are not just getting started, but continuing the work of the elders who marched during the civil rights movement FOR US. They marched for us, now we are marching for the future leaders of this world. Black lives mattered, then and they matter now. Black lives will ALWAYS matter.