Why Black Lives Matter

The topic black lives matter really creates an immense emotional roller coaster for me, because I really ‘go hard’ for my people, and I become very active when it comes to defending them. Attending chapel yesterday was well worth it, although majority of the topics that were discussed caused me to be highly disappointed in my people, that we lack so much knowledge about ourselves. To hear how white washed the panelists, and the audience sounded created exasperation, that words can’t even explain.
I was highly upset by the words of Daytona Black Clergy Alliance President, Reverend Derrick Harris, when he stated that he “had the opportunity to experience racism.” Although he made a few good points, those exact word stuck to me like glue. When …show more content…
I hear individuals state, that saying black lives matter excludes all other ethnicities, and if we never started saying that we wouldn’t have so much hate against us today. I constantly hear white people state that they are afraid of us, like we hold a history of killing them for the past six hundred years. They are afraid that if we come to power, we will do to them and their forefathers what they have done to us. We say black lives matter to raise awareness on the torture that we are going through, and for whites to try, and take over once again, with the phrase all lives matter is like them saying, yes we know you’re currently being unjustified right now, but what about …show more content…
When we say black lives matter, we say this because the nation has a tendency to say otherwise. We say black lives matter to remind our demoralized society that all lives matter, which creates a focus. Historically, we as African Americans have never had the same value as other lives based on the circumstances we have been through; colonization, slavery, imposition of religion, educational disparity, and better yet; institutionalized racism. We were rich, but we have been robbed all of our lives. They took our heritage, white washed it, and claimed it as their own. They did the same to our history, and made it look as if we were never above them, but let’s not forgot how they vandalized my ancestors during slavery for not one, but three hundred years. Mentally, forcing them to practice false religion; physically, beating them, raping them, subjecting them to have children, just to take them away; and spiritually, causing them to lose themselves in the effect of lack of education, food, support, and