Remember, being in junior classes and studying those flash cards learning new words, new adjectives. It taught us the difference between beautiful and ugly by portraying a white person as beautiful and a black person as ugly. That was just a beginning and we never realized how this affected our minds. Some of us might remember the protests against racism and police brutality in the late 1960s, the outrage of African Americans has a sad and sickening familiarity. It is sad because yet another black man was killed by the police officer although he was not resisting arrest, even if had he been resisting, the officers had no write to apply lethal force to an unarmed person. We do not have to look back for examples of racism. We can see it now with disgusting awful frequency. Watching the video of George Floyd being murdered in broad daylight by a police officer, made me sick. It scared me and made me think our humanity has come to an end. It’s just an example of disgrace on humanity. People are protesting against it and Donald trump is touting them as thugs and threatening to send the National Guard.
I am not in favor of violence. I am not saying that burning buildings or destroying public property is correct, all I am saying is justice is not on their side. There is no second thought to the fact that, some things have changed in major, a black man was elected as president twice, yet so many things remained unchanged; segregated neighborhoods and schools, disparate treatment and a lot more to that. We should not do this, we can be better than this. We should not tolerate it just for the sake of being a part of this so called liberal society. No race is superior to another. BLACK LIVES MATTER, Colin K. was right. Why does being black makes you a thug? Why are people teaching us that the color of your skin determines your value in this world? Racism is a virus, deeply rooted, systematically that exist in some form or another, is rampant in our society today.
Being angry at this lately, spreading awareness through social media, showing how devastated you are from this whole incident does not make you any less of a racist if you still joke around, judging people on their skin color in your real life. Symbolic statements and gestures matter a lot but they do not change injustice. We need to change in enforcement.
We have had plenty of reasons to be ashamed of a large portion of the human species (because there are always exceptions, not all people are bad). The color of our blood is red; it is not white or black. There is no difference it is just the darkness in our minds.
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