A Response to "All Lives Matter"
For the last 4 years I have been angry. It has simmered at the edge of my soul, almost at a boiling point with each day that passes.
4 years of having my perception of loved ones and those I respect be completely and totally shattered.
I have sat by as children and immigrant families are put in cages.
I have seen Black men and women on VIDEO being murdered. Crying out that they cannot breathe, that they are a NRA member, a human simply wanting to know why they are being detained.
I have heard the chants of white men holding torches chanting “Jews will not replace us” and a president who refused to condemn their actions.
I have watched Political leaders saying on television that grandma and grandpa would be willing to die for our economy.
I have seen my Asian brothers and sisters being racially targeted for a virus they had no control of, being blamed by “their” own president for what he is to be blamed for.
I have watched this country burn as a president played golf more days than most people in the US have had jobs.
I heard these words coming from the mouth of those who would profess that they know Jesus. I can only imagine Jesus saying “I do not know you.” As he stands next to the children in cages, the man who has a knee on his neck, and the elderly who struggles with their mask and groceries.
To my friends who say “All lives matter” and still stand with the man who only reacts to situations with violence, or signs executive orders when his tweets are being fact checked, who refuses to call out nazis when they march his streets.
I say to you, I do not know you. I cannot know you. For that is not the way of Christ.
All lives matter to those who speak for those who can’t. We must step away from our pride, and learn to listen to the hurt. We must not let evil blind us from love, for love welcomes. Love heals.
Black lives matter because Jewish lives matter, Hispanic lives matter, Immigrant lives matter, Asian lives matter. Yes, all lives matter. But your actions and who you support shows that you truly do not believe that.
We say Black lives matter because it’s bigger than us, because it’s the human thing to do, and because we want to let our Black, Brown, and light skinned brothers and sisters know that we see them, we hear them, and we see what is happening all around them.
We must go forward past hate.
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