..not been doing what they were doing? Doing what? Driving, eating ice cream on their couch, turned on their signal light, not stood in front of the store selling solo cigarettes, not been on the playground playing like little boys or not supposedly whistling while in the presence of a white woman and now not do what most athletes or just citizens do and that is exercise and jog?
All of these things are what we hear society say when these black Americans are shot down or killed in some manner, because the assumption that we as black people bring all violence upon ourselves. While white parents prepare their offspring for being whatever they want to be in the world, we as black parents first start with the lesson for our children, HOW TO SURVIVE.
It has taken me a few days to even speak on the Ahmad Arbery murder, because the pain in my soul just was not ready, not ready to talk about another black citizen being gunned down and literally and NO ONE has even been arrested? As a black mother one of the things I would and still do tell my son who is now a grown man, “don’t be running down the street, because when they see us running “we’re doing something wrong” when they run, “they’re being healthy.”
The list of just a few Emmitt, Eric, Trayvon, Freddy, Tamir, Sandra, Renisha, Botham, Michael, Philando, Alton and now Ahmad. We all know what they have in common they are all dead!
But what do these names have in common? Dylan, George, Darren, Timothy, Theodore, Jeronimo, Travis and Gregory, yes that’s right ALL ALIVE and all murderers!
So let’s turn the IF THEY HAD JUST around, If the alive mentioned names HAD JUST seen these citizens as human beings, IF THEY HAD JUST not been so quick to shoot them or kill them like dogs. IF THEY HAD JUST not immediately assumed because of the color of their skin they were doing something wrong or needed to be taken down perhaps Emmitt, Eric, Trayvon, Freddy, Tamir, Sandra, Renisha, Botham, Michael, Philando, Alton, Ahmad and all other murdered black lives would be ALIVE also.
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