There is a single story to everything. But the single story is not the whole story. To those who constantly critique our right to protest, our right to march, our right to say that our lives matter, please remember the giants who marched during the Civil Rights movement and gave you your freedoms. Our society must hear our pain. *White officers kill black suspects twice a week in the United States, or an average of 96 times a year (USA Today analysis of seven years of FBI data). *Since Obama became president, 51% of Americans expressed explicitly anti-black attitudes, compared to 48% in 2008, while 56% showed implicitly anti-black attitudes, up from 49% four years earlier Southern Poverty Law Center). *One in five black boys have received an out-of-school suspension, according to 2012 Department of Education data. And black students with disabilities are three times more likely to be expelled, a punishment that sets kids in zero-tolerance systems up for later criminal punishment (Dept of Education). *Latinos and blacks tend to be sentenced more harshly than whites for lower-level crimes such as drug crimes and property crimes; however, Latinos and blacks convicted of high-level drug offenses also tend to be more harshly sentenced than similarly situated whites (The Sentencing Project, 2007). We are protesting, we are marching because we can no longer breathe. Most protests are peaceful. Most of us want peace and unification. Most of us know the law of the land was never built to protect brown/black people like us. This is our history because were American. Not because were black or white or brown. This is our history because this nation was built on white supremacy, on the backs of the American Negro. Please listen to our pain. Understand what Martin Luther King Jr. said about protest: Riots is the language of the unheard. https://youtube/watch?v=FpfTos6NroM
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 17:28:36 +0000
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