When I wrote my first article, I wanted to strictly talk about fashion as an industry. But, today is different. Today, I want to talk about The Black Lives Matter movement and being black in America. I know that all the details of the shooting of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile have been on the news and social media everywhere. I wanted to voice my opinion about this tragedy and all of the other tragedies that happened with police shootings. Everyone in the world needs to take this serious. We all need to actually understand what is going on in our world.

When everyone says Black lives matter, people get upset and say All lives matter. Yes, all do lives matter. But, black lives seems to be the only lives being targeted by police. I'm going to say something, that might upset some people but I have to say it! All of these police shootings are a race. Yes, it is clear that black men are the main target of these shootings. Why are unarmed black men getting killed for no reason? I'll tell you why. These police officers are scared of black men. They believe that all black men are aggressive and angry. Which is not true! These two men who were killed had families. Why are we the only race being targeted? I am so outraged because the world doesn't want to believe what's really going on. What's really going is that black men are being targeted by white cops. It's the truth and we all know it is.

It's not fair, that the entire black community has to be scared for their lives and the lives of their children. I'm scared. You never know what can happen. I can walk outside tomorrow and never see my family again because the police think I'm aggressive and that the music that I listen to makes me this angry and aggressive black woman. The police are supposed to "serve and protect" but, they are killing with no hesitation. The biggest problem is that they are getting away with killing unarmed black men. The only consequence they get is paid-leave. That's it. No conviction, just paid-leave.

We say All lives matter, but they don't. Black lives don't actually matter. If they did matter, the police officers in these shooting should be charged and convicted. But they not! We have to scream "Black lives matter" for people to know that we matter. We shouldn't have to do that. In my opinion, it seems that racism never ended. It's 2016 and racism is still happening and not only between blacks and whites either.

As a young black woman, it hurts that it doesn't matter that I went to college and it doesn't matter what degree I have earned the police will only see me as an angry and aggressive black woman. We all as Americans need to fix what is going on. I know that it's not going to be fixed overnight. But, we all need to help stop these police shooting.

Thank you for reading my article this week! Please keep both of these families in your prayers. Next week I will be talking about fashion and how you can't trust certain companies.