Freedom Fighters has a powerful ring to it. A term harboring individuals serving in a collective doing God's work. A collective still asking for what should be given rights. This is preposterous, or is it? We are still having to advocate for our freedom as a people living in what is considered to be a first-world nation led by democracy with foundations claiming to be the land of liberty. We are living in a country that has adopted a facade of progression past the racial discrimination of the civil rights era. Now it has terrifyingly employed tactics to operate in an ever silkier fashion, allowing it to run more efficiently.
Take the case of Kalief Browder. What made his story so unbelievable was that it was as if he were invisible in the system. He was locked away for no reason at all and trapped in a guise of progression that is masked by the courts of our "Justice" system. The people of America are so convinced that we are beyond racism and that the system first created almost three hundred years ago was created to perfection. There are two scary parts to this thought; either it was indeed created perfectly and it is just the people who are causing it to run all wrong or it indeed is operating in the way that it was meant to. What has made black people the rats in this country's eyes with oppressors going out of their way to laden the system with traps to further enslave us? to eradicate us?
George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Oscar Grant, Trayvon....... were all killed in plain sight. Killed by this nation's police force that has been sworn to "serve and protect" us, only how can they "serve and protect" us when they are employed by the same system that is working in a high effort to keep us the white man's negro. The same system working to keep us as the white man's property to be done away with when pleased, their mean of income, an asset in the continued growth of their empire. On our backs, we are carrying out the construction of their great pyramids.
This can not be a continued story. This can not be a continuous cycle of black death with no consequence for the white man. Then came the declaration following the harrowing death of Trayvon Martin in February of 2012. You made the declaration garnering all of the world's attention towards a truth that has long been disregarded, BLACK LIVES MATTER.
Black families matter, Black rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness matters.
Heading this movement were not only three black individuals but three black women.
Three black women making it known that no more were we going to sit idle and cry at the loss of our sisters, brothers, mothers, and fathers at the hands of this nation's white fears. No more were we going to allow this nation's system to continue to shackle, incarcerate, oppress, and kill us. The first step in this fight was declaring. We still have so much more work to do in dismantling this system that has caused the death of more than one thousand black people at the hands of police (this is only the number from 2015 to present (nor 2020)) and the mass incarceration of black people constituting the largest population of those incarcerated.
Black Lives Matter is not a moment but a movement running on the fire in our hearts speaking the words enough is enough.
Sincerely,
Kayla Mary Jane
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