Black lives matter- in the modern world
As I am writing this, an american black man was killed by a cop in the states and this has started a trend, a trend of Hashtag blacklivesmatter............ coupled with a select few using the protests to push a darker narrative.
I have started writing as I am finding the entire saga to be full of hypocrisies and virue signalling on the grandest of scales.
I have been in and around race and culture my entire life , with mixed race members of family I have seen and felt the changes throughout the early 90s til today, 6 month into 2020!
What I find mind blowing is the utter ignorance of society as a whole, so hungry for something or someone to project their hate upon that they are completely incapable of seing themselves and the pots they stir.
The thought of someone being punished in some way for the colour of their skin sickens me. However, has it sickened me to the point I have done something active about it?! No it hasnt , it hasnt caused me to go on marches and rallies to raise awareness of the atrocities being carried out in africa, has it made me march and raise awareness for the murderous regime that is china?! No again, and neither has anybody else! Certainly not the people on the streets calling for the system to be torn down!
So I ask the question, when do black lives matter? Do black, yellow,brown, white lives matter equally?
Do black lives matter more now in western societies because of years of oppression? Do we need to give black people a higher status for 100 years to help balance things out, leading to racism in the other direction?
When do lives matter, regardless of colour, sex, beliefs?? What is the catalist for the current outrage!
Because racism exists in every country in the world to varying degrees, apart from maybe a select few, isolated tribes where only their race exists, like the Awa tribe in the amazon etc.
Is it possible that western countries, under an education system that tries to create a utopia within the narrative , has convinced us all that we should be well beyond the tribal instincts that have kept us alive and evolved us to become who we are?! Because anyone with a degree of understanding of biology and evolution would understand that no matter how civalised society becomes, the transition for our biology wont just catch up with our culture because we say it should!
The people marching are attempting to create an us and them narrative that is just as devisive and destructive as the narrative they claim to be marching to erradicate!
At this moment in time its too insensative to create an alternative narrative, however I can only but wonder when an alternative will come to be?! When will all lives matter equally? Will they ever?
Most will point to me being a white man and therefore I have no voice in the current climate! But that hasnt stopped thousands marching! So my voice will matter when it supports you but the moment I question I become the enemy, my voice has lost its worth, my opinion so obviously fuelled by fear etc.
Sounds awefully oppressive to me, Is it not oppression that is the problem! How can you fight oppression with more oppression!!
Again, in a world of no thinking we judge and react..................
E.Plaistow
