The murder of 14 y/o’s Cyrus Carmack Belton teaches that the system of racism is alive and kicking. Black people’s suffering is just a side note for most; black people’s activism is an aggression. When people started talking about Black Lives Matter movement, people ridiculed it, they called it woke, loud, exaggerated, and some people even sported t-shirts with the words “White Lives Matter” printed on them. They did not want to see that historically , socially, structurally, black lives have not been as protected as white lives. And they don’t care. While the country never ceased to be hostile to its black citizens, it would be ignorant not to notice how this hostility has been growing and growing in the last two years. People will prize more four bottles of water than were never stolen in the first place than the life of a black child. Shameful
