its larger than the elephant in the room
My post is going to be all over the place.
I have thought through how to ensure it makes sense but I have drawn so many blanks.
Blanks that wasn't what Ahmaud Arbery got while he was jogging on the day his body was shot.
His life cut short.
After being killed, his assilants claim they were after a burglar and he fit the description.
The best thing they could do was to shoot to death this young man, so that his side of the story would forever be silenced.
What a calamity!
I read an article on CNN saying some 'truth' will exonerate the assailants. These assailants who cannot undo the killing, they cannot bring back the boy.
Is life not precious any longer? or maybe the lives of people who look like me can't actually be termed precious. It isn't worth a pinch of salt maybe. It is ok to shoot, take a life especially the life of the person of African descent...
I simply don't get it. Many people don't get it. Why is there so much hatred? What is the underlying problem?
Then this week, a man was handcuffed and treated like a goat, placed on the ground for the public to gloat at. Stripped of dignity and self worth and then killed in the process.
The lie, he was resisting arrest. The footage, he was black, tall and already cuffed.
Sigh!
What a strange place, what stranger times, what strangest things...
Imagine the conversations black moms have with their sons. The coming of age talk because the police who is meant too serve you will kill you first. The conversation that is larger than the elephant so that you stay alive to speak.
Does justice have a color too? Do condolences raise the dead from life?
Will George Floyd ever get to speak to his daughter?
I have thought through how to ensure it makes sense but I have drawn so many blanks.
Blanks that wasn't what Ahmaud Arbery got while he was jogging on the day his body was shot.
His life cut short.
After being killed, his assilants claim they were after a burglar and he fit the description.
The best thing they could do was to shoot to death this young man, so that his side of the story would forever be silenced.
What a calamity!
I read an article on CNN saying some 'truth' will exonerate the assailants. These assailants who cannot undo the killing, they cannot bring back the boy.
Is life not precious any longer? or maybe the lives of people who look like me can't actually be termed precious. It isn't worth a pinch of salt maybe. It is ok to shoot, take a life especially the life of the person of African descent...
I simply don't get it. Many people don't get it. Why is there so much hatred? What is the underlying problem?
Then this week, a man was handcuffed and treated like a goat, placed on the ground for the public to gloat at. Stripped of dignity and self worth and then killed in the process.
The lie, he was resisting arrest. The footage, he was black, tall and already cuffed.
Sigh!
What a strange place, what stranger times, what strangest things...
Imagine the conversations black moms have with their sons. The coming of age talk because the police who is meant too serve you will kill you first. The conversation that is larger than the elephant so that you stay alive to speak.
Does justice have a color too? Do condolences raise the dead from life?
Will George Floyd ever get to speak to his daughter?
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