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This is to the white men who still believe America should be the way it used to be.
The people who fear anyone who is not like them.
The people who believe America should only be one race.
The people who deal with fear by acting out in violence.
The people who believe they are superior because of the Nation's past.
The people who believe it is okay to disrupt the peace.
And to the people of my own kind.
I am passionate about this issue because I am an African American.
When I was little, we were fighting against slavery then and you are all fighting for your lives
now.
Everyone wants equality not equity.
How does it make you feel that it has been nearly 300 years and racial discrimination is still
happening?
Did the civil rights movement not teach you anything at all?
Did Martin Luther King Jr die for absolutely no progress?
He was born to teach us something, and that is to never give up.
Just like Rosa Parks,
Just like Barack Obama,
Just like Harriet Tubman,
Just like Langston Hughes,
Just like you.
You are the future,
Do not spend it trying to get even.
Spend it influencing others to do good to each other,
Love each other.
Everyone deserves a chance at life and a happy one at that.
I know what I missed out on as a child and that was freedom and the hope to be free.
To my people, now that you are free from slavery, you are still being mistreated, you are still
being neglected, treated unfairly.
You have started a movement meant for gathering people to showcase that we do matter.
Our voices, your voices need to be heard.
Although all lives matter, we need to focus on black lives right now.
This is not about one moment, this is about years, and lives, and people we are looking after
and protecting and getting justice for.
Remember the names of those that died by the hands of officers who are meant to protect us.
Sandra Bland, 28
Freddie Gray, 25,
Denzel Brown, 21
Tony Robinson, 19
Trayvon Martin, 17
And so much more.
Sources
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3736.html
http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-farbota/black-crime-rates-your-st_b_8078586.html
http://blacklivesmatter.com/getinvolved/