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A shade darker than 'white'


And so can't we.
And so can't we.

My previous post was written in late March. Just for contemplation-sake I'd say that I expected May and June to be the new start for this year, it might as well would have been called January. Where things would be sound and we could spend the rest of the 6 months feeling a bit more normal than we are used to feeling. 

If the knee that choked George lifted in time, the wake up call for the community wouldn't be here. Imagine you talking about your child, on a stage, saying "my kid is so gifted" and someone snatches the mic to comment "all children are gifted". I think people of America needed this as a reason to break the already-broken economy to fathom about an issue we thought that was long buried. Riots never reached it's climax. Another issue always rose up and we would forget what we were rioting for. 

Not this time. 

As demeaning or exhausting this year was, we were far from understanding how much racism it would take to set the whole world on fire, just with emotions like anger and hate. As disgusting as this is, I wonder how a salesman can just 'guess' if it is a counterfeit 20 dollar bill. 
A 20 dollar bill, was more worth than seeing the  "black" daughter of George screaming for help from inside of his car. It was way more worth than suffocating a "black" man, unarmed, who pleaded for life while addressing the cop as 'sir'. Here we are, confirmed, that 'black' lives matter not a cent more than a 20 dollar bill.  

I believed since America calls themselves as the "inspectors of the world" that racism was dying. How naive and ironic is that. It's even more absurd when you ask yourself what Obama did while he was president. The answer is, we are not born with the wrong intentions, we rather have been taught about racism and how to act according to current political debacles. While the current president,(Trump) is a successful, openly racist and a tiring imbecile, who is willing to encourage his collude-followers to set his standards. Which is why, I'm not surprised why the police didn't hesitate the knee-to-neck stifling, while the 'black' man wanted to call his "mama". I'm sensitive about it because no other policeman dared to call out for the man when Floyd said he could't breathe? So the intention was to kill him? did anyone not check if the 20 dollar bill was really a counterfeit if it was worth so much so we can finally make up our mind that being one or two shades darker is considered far from having the 'white' privilege? 

If you ever put a gun to someone's head and if your hand isn't shaking, you're already a killer.
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