I'm not going to lie, this is unfamiliar territory to me. I rarely get involved in racial issues because as I've explained in previous posts, I don't consider my race or skin color a key to defining myself. I am more than any of my physical distinctions or place where I was born. Moreover, I'm not really sure if I've ever been discriminated against. I have, at least, not been discriminated against to the extend the black man in the United States has suffered. With that being said, I have also learned that refusing to take a stand in such crucial topic in this country is also making a choice. Not making a choice is a choice.
In the awake of the two high-profile killings by police in the past week, I have seen just how prejudice America is. Did I know that before these two events took place? I mean, Donald Trump is the Republican nominee. That in itself should be enough to determine how this country really feels about race.Now, I'm not here to make you feel sorry for immigrants or for those who fail to meet the white-skin, blue eyes requirement to be respected in the United States; I am here to tell you that the concept of #AllLivesMatter is bullshit.
Let me get this out of the way also, I refuse to accept #BlackLivesMatter or BLM as a movement that simply demands equal rights and equal treatment for African-Americans.That might have been the platform the movement was founded on; however, it is not what BLM is now. Sadly, BLM is a group of angry people demanding to be respected by confronting the police, wreck local business that most likely belong to other African-Americans and destroying private property. As a minority in the States, I can tell you that we can't be angry minorities demanding justice, while also trying to be the educated minorities demanding justice. The two don't go together. We, as minorities, fail to understand time and time again that the white man is already above us in this country. They are considered better than us. I know it shouldn't be like that, but that is what it is. So then, we become the angry minorities and we confront the police or we do something like refusing to respect the army or the police, and you know what that does? That plays into white America's hands. That gives white America the authority to say "this is why we don't treat them equally". That is the sad reality.
So do all lives truly matter? Not really. Not all lives equally matter in a country where a person is making a post about "those" people attacking the police or "those" people protesting for equal rights and hurting the police. All lives don't equally matter when a white person is making a post on social media about #BlueLivesMatter #AllLivesMatter, but you've never seen any posts about an innocent black man losing his life. Do you see how that makes no sense? So is #AllLivesMatter real? Do all lives truly matter when we choose to stand up for cops, but feel no need to stand up for equal rights? I get it though, every cop and every military person risk their lives for us. I get that and I am really thankful to them. However, that doesn't take away from the fact that there are extensive reports proving just how these two communities abuse their power. Not #AllLivesMatter when Syrian refugees are seeking asylum in this country, not by choice, but because the civil war in Syria, which America helped create, has destroyed everything they had, yet Governors refuse to take them in because "they are a potential threat". Not #AllLivesMatter when we refuse to give at least 3.6 million immigrants legal status under Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents or DAPA, but we still hire them as they are cheap labor. Not #AllLivesMatter when a presidential candidate is calling all Mexicans "rapists" and stating that he will ban Muslims from entering the country as they could be terrorists, and instead of standing up against these xenophobic remarks, we praise the man for "saying what everyone else is afraid of saying".
It's simple though, #AllLivesDontEquallyMatter.
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