Today I am remembering this song Buffalo Soldier
by Bob Marley, deceased Jamaican Reggae artist.
From about 1526 Africans were taken from their homelands and brought to the Americas as slaves. The journey met upon many becoming ill, loss of lives and great sufferings. Now in the 21st Century not sure we have really been far removed from the 15th century. For years blacks have been fighting for freedom even though they were freed. In this year 2020 we are fighting COVID-19 pandemic. In mid-March we were placed on locked down with only necessary workers allowed to be working outside of their homes. While adjusting to this new lifestyle of wearing mask, social distancing, distance learning and working remotely; a white cop decided to add another a pandemic, police brutality.
Why should people who are not white still be fighting to be treated as human beings? When a video of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis officer who kneeled in George Floyd’s for over 8 minutes went viral, this ignited fury in the black community and others who have any regard for human life.
Some who are not black are unable to understand #blacklivesmatter movement. It’s not that all lives do not matter, of course all lives matter. When a black father has to have talks with his black son that because of skin color there is a different way to act when stopped by the people who are to protect and serve; we have a problem. The way blacks have been treated does not concur with the statement of all lives matter. All lives matter when black lives matter. Show blacks they too matter. All people should have the free will to breathe.
Floyd called upon his dead mother for help when Chauvin was kneeling in his neck – this did not appeal to Chauvin. Usually, hearing the name mother would have a man thinking about his present action. Somehow that seem not to have had any effect on Chauvin. His action sparked protest because people are tired of living this way. It is not that this killing is different from any of the other blacks who met a similar faith: Stephon Clark, Philando Castille, Tamir Rice, and many others. It just that we need to start treating brown skin and black skin like they are human beings. We absolutely need a change.
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