As we’re reeling from the losses of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Tony McDade Black people are in mourning. We are suffering again as we remember this society and world at large cares nothing for our lives. How many times has it been? How many times have we all collectively asked ourselves that painful question?
These individuals are but the few among the generations of Black lives we’ve lost. These human beings committed no crimes in this nation except for existing. Again, we have to feel the pain of our mortality and the remember how things really are. The difference now? Us Black people have time for you white majority society. The time for peace and respectability is over. It’s long been over.
We rage, we protest, we riot, we are rebelling. Like a wise Black woman said: “We learned the violence from you”. That is the language of America and you will not tell us otherwise.
In a truly just world, these human beings would’ve not been victims of oppression. The police are the tools of white supremacy and overt violence. They are the raw unfiltered version of whiteness, they demands order and operate to erase the voices/lives of Black people. Without batting an eyelash cops (whom again products of white society) saw no value in these people. Hell, they see no value in our fellow sympathizers and supporters. They…
