I, like everyone else that has watched the news, has feelings and opinions about what is going in this country. It baffles me that people don't understand why African-Americans distrust the police so much.
A white man commented yesterday on Facebook that black people should get over it. I urge all people, no matter your race or ethnicity, to please remember some important U.S. History. It was only 149 years ago that slavery was abolished It was only 59 years ago that Rosa Parks was arrested for just sitting on a bus. Only 46 years ago that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated after years of being threatened, harassed and stalked by the police. Let’s not forget, Jim Crow Laws lasted from approximately 1890-1970. This dictated where you could eat, shop, walk and live if you had the mere appearance of being “black”. African Americans were being "red-lined" when getting mortgages on homes in the 1970's and 1980s and it was allowed. It was only 22 years ago that people rioted in L.A. due to police brutality.
2 years ago Trayvon Martin was shot by George Zimmerman for wearing a hoodie. Michael Brown is killed by a police officer while having no weapon at all. Eric Garner is choked to death, on camera, while posing no threat or harm to the police officers at all. So I ask all of you who don’t understand our anger and outrage; How can African Americans "get over" our unjust, unfair, animalistic treatment in this country when we never got a break from it?
2 years ago Trayvon Martin was shot by George Zimmerman for wearing a hoodie. Michael Brown is killed by a police officer while having no weapon at all. Eric Garner is choked to death, on camera, while posing no threat or harm to the police officers at all. So I ask all of you who don’t understand our anger and outrage; How can African Americans "get over" our unjust, unfair, animalistic treatment in this country when we never got a break from it?
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