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What is a Black Life Worth to Society: A Year Later
So, we are now a year (well year is almost done) after the murders and protests of Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd — so many others because that’s reality.
In that time I’ve learned, analyzed, ruminated, and got reminded about society and constantly coming back to the same question I’ve asked throughout life; so what is the worth of a Black person’s life?
How do I begin to answer that? Well, first my mind goes to how people (specifically those who aren’t Black) looked at the year after George Floyd was killed by a cop as ‘‘the anniversary of his death.”
This thinking and the language surrounding it remains highly disingenuous. It perpetuates that there’s more importance in a our death then when we’re alive — one of America’s favorite hobbies
A man’s life was stolen for no reason other than his skin tone. Then we marched in his memory to speak about our injustice. Protests and riots ran across America and internationally. Because (some)people understand that Black lives are devalued everywhere and not just in the land of red, white, and blue — people argue racism is only in America…do you use Google?
