I’m not saying I don’t want you to stand with me now, but my BLACK LIFE MATTERED before you stood with the crowd and chanted, “hand up don’t shoot” and held banners that said that that MY BLACK LIFE MATTERED. If you had stood for me and with me before, George and James would not be dead. See most know Georges name because its on tv, and social media right now but few know James though BLACK LIVES MATTER now. James died by gun fire some said for standing for what he believed in, some said for a window that he didn’t break and even if he had is the death penalty the price for broken glass? It is disheartening to say the least that only now the police are willing to say there are those who they oppose who cross that thin blue line. From officer to murderer but there are those of they who crossed it every day committing murder after murder with blind eyes wide open, but until it was posted in its entirety on social media only BLACK LIVES knew it MATTERED. VIOLENCE IS NOT the answer but it spreads like a cancer because people would rather unify to set fires and loot instead of unifying to tell the truth that this MATTER of BLACK LIVES didn’t start and will not end with George or James. Its not the blame game its the truth until you dig down to the root and destroy it, to cut off a weed of evil at the base only prunes the weed to help it grow. We have been on the outside looking in being shunned for centuries from within with Oppression, depression, suppression, segregation, degradation, subversion you name it we have experienced it all. Though some others may have been appalled we were left to continue to fall by the wayside, in the daytime and at night. In an alley, in the street, in our homes, violently violated, annihilated, and wiped from the face of the earth. The illegitimate birth of a nation in secrecy doesn’t negate the pile of bloody rags festering in every corner. Oh no here we go again bringing up the past, even though we quote ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ‘ (George Santayana-1905). We apparently quote it but still don’t believe it because when the true history of what seems to most to be a mystery begins to be uncovered, unfolded, unfiltered unfortunately the account is then recanted. Realizing the inevitable we suppress until provoked to the point when all reason is out the door. Again, not promoting VIOLENCE but silence is just as deadly especially when the silence comes from being bound and gagged. It’s sad to see human life so frivolously discarded and disregarded like weekly trash. Will, Emmit, Martin, Medger, Malcolm, Fred, Mark, Amadou, Trayvon, Freddie, Sandra, Michael, Philando, Atatiana, Botham, Ahmaud, Breonna, George, JAMES just to name a few, names who many knew and many more I can’t name. The real shame is on anyone who doesn’t know at least one. Because the history behind each one is sown into the fabric on our nation, we call great. We pride ourselves on history so let us not pretend its a mystery when history repeats itself because we choose not to remember.
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