On October 31st, 2020, George Floyd, an African American, was murdered in the most inhuman way possible. From what started as small murmurs in the crowd, turned into a loud roar of hundreds marching the streets of the city. Donald Trump, the president of the United States at the time, issued an apology to all African American people and their loved ones who were hurt. The apology was passed unanimously. Was the apology the only thing we went into war for? An apology and to educate the people of the country who are considered privileged to understand the oppressive systematic racism affecting the lives of millions daily in America specifically 2018-2021. For hundreds of years, us African Americans have had trouble fitting in with this society
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Hundreds and thousands of black people marched the streets that day and wrote our names in the history of the United States of America. Several protests were happening daily in all states across America, I was caught in one of the largest in New York to demand civil rights and to gain freedom of speech and to stop systematic racism against us African Americans. Word had come out through multiple news corporations that we were marching down the street of Time Square known as Soldiers. At the start of the day, nearly 1000 people turned up. Not only stripped and derived of our identity, we do not have freedom of speech, act or any voice at all, hence why we are going to war with the political parties of America. It was not too long before I was caught in the crossfire of the protest, hundreds of black people beat and arrested, I was lucky I survived the day and made it to the night. There were hundreds of mixed races, skin color and a wide variety of backgrounds working together to fight in the war of black people being mistreated. As a young African American, I was scared going into the protest, but so many lives were lost because me and hundreds of others were held back. No good ever comes in evil, this protest was like trying to seek refuge in our own home country. For many years, us black people were promised to be treated fairly, at the end of the day …show more content…
As a high school teacher, being black teaching a school full of whites was a risk for me. Going to this protest could result in not only losing my job, but my mind trying to gain equal rights as I could be arrested, charged and put behind bars for the rest of my life. The biggest thing for me is 1 in 3 African Americans are arrested unfairly in their lifetime. So many young lives lost and ruined by being put behind bars for something they were not guilty of. The pain and suffering for us had to stop, I had witnessed multiple people being beat by batons, cuffed for just marching in the protest. Protests had occurred in the early 2010’s and failed. This only aggravated parliament officials and created a bad name for us black people in America. Through racial slurs such as n word, going back to your country, slave, their,, to inhuman treatment, I felt like an animal living in America. It had soon become clear that blacks had enough when violence was the only answer to solve our problem. I remember watching the news and Donald Trump saying, ‘shoot at all means’ proving America as a nation has not progressed in the slightest towards equality and letting black people’s voices be heard for over 10
Hundreds and thousands of black people marched the streets that day and wrote our names in the history of the United States of America. Several protests were happening daily in all states across America, I was caught in one of the largest in New York to demand civil rights and to gain freedom of speech and to stop systematic racism against us African Americans. Word had come out through multiple news corporations that we were marching down the street of Time Square known as Soldiers. At the start of the day, nearly 1000 people turned up. Not only stripped and derived of our identity, we do not have freedom of speech, act or any voice at all, hence why we are going to war with the political parties of America. It was not too long before I was caught in the crossfire of the protest, hundreds of black people beat and arrested, I was lucky I survived the day and made it to the night. There were hundreds of mixed races, skin color and a wide variety of backgrounds working together to fight in the war of black people being mistreated. As a young African American, I was scared going into the protest, but so many lives were lost because me and hundreds of others were held back. No good ever comes in evil, this protest was like trying to seek refuge in our own home country. For many years, us black people were promised to be treated fairly, at the end of the day …show more content…
As a high school teacher, being black teaching a school full of whites was a risk for me. Going to this protest could result in not only losing my job, but my mind trying to gain equal rights as I could be arrested, charged and put behind bars for the rest of my life. The biggest thing for me is 1 in 3 African Americans are arrested unfairly in their lifetime. So many young lives lost and ruined by being put behind bars for something they were not guilty of. The pain and suffering for us had to stop, I had witnessed multiple people being beat by batons, cuffed for just marching in the protest. Protests had occurred in the early 2010’s and failed. This only aggravated parliament officials and created a bad name for us black people in America. Through racial slurs such as n word, going back to your country, slave, their,, to inhuman treatment, I felt like an animal living in America. It had soon become clear that blacks had enough when violence was the only answer to solve our problem. I remember watching the news and Donald Trump saying, ‘shoot at all means’ proving America as a nation has not progressed in the slightest towards equality and letting black people’s voices be heard for over 10