As I watch the news and see how the black people of America talk about how “Black Lives Matter”, it breaks my heart. I can’t believe how far we have fallen from. Yes, as a black woman, living in America, I do at times fear for my life when I am stopped by a police officer these days, but I’m not alone. I do feel like that black lives matter but I also feel that all lives matter. I feel that it is not just blacks (African Americans) that are being mistreated and killed for no reason. There have been a few cases where other races have been treated unfairly and killed because they were different or just hate crimes in general. I sit here and wonder what happen to the values that this country was founding on. Have we really forgotten what our Declaration
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(Donald, 2016) This was according to The Washington Post’s ongoing database of fatal police shootings. (Donald, 2016) Those ratios were also similar to last year’s recording, in which whites made up 50% of the 987 fatal police shootings, and blacks were 26%. (Donald, 2016) So from what I can see here, is that black Americans are not at the top but the white Americans. I feel that because of how and what the media tells us about the police killings in America, is how this came about. People fail to realize that media doesn’t always give us the whole story. I wonder if the media ever spoke about all those others’ lives of innocent peoples that was taken by police. Here is something else I found out. “In the U.S. a total of 509 citizens have been killed this year alone by police. The body count for the previous year stands at a grand total of 990 people shot dead, according to the Washington Post. As the below infographic from Statista shows, most of those killed by police are male and white. 123 of those shot were Black Americans. This is a relatively high share, keeping in mind that close to 13 percent of Americans belong to that ethnic group. ” (Spec, 2016) Below are a few graphs that will show you the results found: (Spec, 2016) So I this why I feel that it’s not just black Americans lives that matter but …show more content…
For many years now homosexuals have been scrutinized by society because who they chose to love and how they chose to live their lives. Till this day there are many homosexuals that are afraid to come out because they fear how they will be treated by family, friends, and the people around them. It has been said that nearly a fifth of the 5,462 so-called single-bias hate crimes reported to the F.B.I. in 2014 were because of the target’s sexual orientation, or, in some cases, their perceived orientation. (Park & Mykhyalyshyn, 2016) To be honest, I feel like that the increase of hate crimes against homosexuals is because of the increase of people who are accepting them for who they are. Even though there are more people that are accepting in the society, they still have issues of being denied the same rights of everyone else. To me it doesn’t make any sense. They are people just like everyone else. They bleed, cry, love, and hurt like everyone else. Their lives matter just like everyone else’s. What makes them so
(Donald, 2016) This was according to The Washington Post’s ongoing database of fatal police shootings. (Donald, 2016) Those ratios were also similar to last year’s recording, in which whites made up 50% of the 987 fatal police shootings, and blacks were 26%. (Donald, 2016) So from what I can see here, is that black Americans are not at the top but the white Americans. I feel that because of how and what the media tells us about the police killings in America, is how this came about. People fail to realize that media doesn’t always give us the whole story. I wonder if the media ever spoke about all those others’ lives of innocent peoples that was taken by police. Here is something else I found out. “In the U.S. a total of 509 citizens have been killed this year alone by police. The body count for the previous year stands at a grand total of 990 people shot dead, according to the Washington Post. As the below infographic from Statista shows, most of those killed by police are male and white. 123 of those shot were Black Americans. This is a relatively high share, keeping in mind that close to 13 percent of Americans belong to that ethnic group. ” (Spec, 2016) Below are a few graphs that will show you the results found: (Spec, 2016) So I this why I feel that it’s not just black Americans lives that matter but …show more content…
For many years now homosexuals have been scrutinized by society because who they chose to love and how they chose to live their lives. Till this day there are many homosexuals that are afraid to come out because they fear how they will be treated by family, friends, and the people around them. It has been said that nearly a fifth of the 5,462 so-called single-bias hate crimes reported to the F.B.I. in 2014 were because of the target’s sexual orientation, or, in some cases, their perceived orientation. (Park & Mykhyalyshyn, 2016) To be honest, I feel like that the increase of hate crimes against homosexuals is because of the increase of people who are accepting them for who they are. Even though there are more people that are accepting in the society, they still have issues of being denied the same rights of everyone else. To me it doesn’t make any sense. They are people just like everyone else. They bleed, cry, love, and hurt like everyone else. Their lives matter just like everyone else’s. What makes them so