Black Lives Matter

I am not oblivious to the mess of a state the world is currently in.

It is heart breaking. It is tormenting.

This year called for a lot but a race war was not what we expected.

I don’t doubt that you are already aware of the many police brutality and injustice black people in America, Europe and Arab countries face. Racism has existed for hundreds of years and though our leaders and great ancestors have fought for its end over the past years, it is evidently very existent.

I am not American nor do I live in America but in all honestly, you do not have to be American or live in America to be sickened by the wrong the black people of the nation are facing.

Why is it that blacks must supposedly learn to live in fear, of a bullet when they come across the police – especially white police – in their own countries? How can a mother peacefully sleep at night knowing that her son has gone to work and might not come home because one of the staff of the police department of her state whose paycheck also comes from her hard-earned money might just decide to shoot him if he feels like it? And what will come out of it? Nothing more than the loss of his job, and he will then quite possibly land another job soon after.

That is how highly wrong and iniquitous the system is. Giving high importance to the man of white color and little or no importance to the man of black color. The same black man whose ancestors worked, strived and died for their freedom in the lands they were born and/or raised.

So they tell you there is freedom of expression. “Feel like to speak on matters that bother you and your way of life.” Yet when the black man speaks, there is little or no relevance given to his speech.

Perhaps there is a story for every black person to narrate when it comes to racism. Even those who never left their African home countries. Because we have white people come into our lands, and still give us some sense of racism.

They come, and they capture the beauty of our culture, our lives. Then they belittle it to us, and speak highly of it within themselves. They envy us. So they steal our riches, our culture and our pride. Then they turn around have the audacity to be racist.

But the Lord knows no color.

Like a post I came across on Instagram said, “we can only evolve if we resolve the problems we face as humanity.”