Over the past (history of America) years, racism has been a huge problem. And before you form those words or make that comment, yes… it still exists. If you are old enough to read this article and comprehend these words, you are too old to act like it doesn’t exist.
Now, if you have been alive over the past few years, you’ve heard of the murders of unarmed black people by police officers. This didn’t just start happening but people didn’t always have speedy access to a camera to record these cases of injustice. These videos are coming out more often now because it just keeps happening and no one is getting in trouble for it. Why? Because apparently, black lives don’t matter in this country.
Rewinding back to 2013 when Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi created a call of action after George Zimmerman was not held accountable for the murder of Trayvon Martin. The call of action was a hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter. This has been used to simply tell the world that our lives matter.
Since we had this hashtag, we were met on Twitter with the “#AllLivesMatter” tag. Many people use this because they feel left out. They want attention. These people hate to see black people have something that they can’t be apart of. The “AllLivesMatter” crowd seem to have a problem with being left out and many of them have a strange urge to be oppressed.
Today, I am here to tell you why all lives do not matter. (Although it is important to know that it is not the job of black people to educate you.)
All lives do not matter because it is obvious that in the United States of America, black lives don’t matter. Are we not human? Did you forget that in order to use “all” it has to include black people?
All lives don’t matter because black bodies are under attack by the police. All lives don’t matter because black people can’t keep calm when cops are around. All lives don’t matter because black people are still being murdered for no reason. All lives don’t matter because black people are being killed by police and the police keep getting paid leave. All lives don’t matter because we are still dying at the hands of people we pay to “serve and protect”.
And please, don’t get me started on #BlueLivesMatter… you are the ones killing us. Killing us for reaching for our ID (#PhilandoCastile), selling CD’s (#AltonSterling), selling cigarettes (#EricGarner), failure to signal lane change (#SandraBland), non-functioning brake lights (#WalterScott), etc.
