America is generally seen as one of the most free countries in the world, with numerous civil liberties and freedoms offered to its citizens. With that being said, people are being killed due to the color of their own skin, and that raises the question: How free is America? We have good and law abiding citizens being killed for such a trivial aspect of themselves.
Many people believe that it is wrong and unjust to blame the police for this, but with police officers lack of education and the racism looming all over the nation, we are led to believe the citizens of their motives. Racism is a concept so woven into our society that people are ignorant to the fact when they are actually being racist, also known as internalized racism. This leads to problems similar to what is happening now and continuing this cycle of racism.
The defense for all of these actions are put into three words: Black Lives Matter. Many other citizens take offense to that statement believe it is “racist” against them and any other people with different nationalities. There response to this is “All Lives Matter” and they fire back to any black lives matter supporter with that statement. They are right, all lives do matter and everyone is important but, in this moment along with many others, the lives of African American citizens are the ones most in danger. What really matters is all people working together so color doesn’t matter and it is just who we are as people.
A former Atlanta mayor, Ivan Allen, once described Atlanta as the city “too busy to hate,” and he is right, but so is the rest of the country. America is the country too big and busy to hate, and that needs to be realized now.
