In the past few days, thereâs been a video of George Floyd being murdered in cold blood virally circulating the internet and social media. I couldnât tell you what possessed me to write about this particular case but something in my brain clicked this morning when I opened my eyes; Iâm alive and I will never have the fear of being brutalised by police for the colour of my skin.
The first thing I want to bring to light is the fact that caucasian police officers MURDERED someone in broad daylight in cold blood, simply because he has more melanin in his DNA. Police are meant to be a symbol of safety and help and kindness and the fact that, throughout history and in present day, policemen/women/officers have been abusing their power to make minorities feel inferior to them is disgusting. If youâve seen the video, you can hear George repeatedly saying âI cant breatheâ âPlease donât kill meâ âIâm going to dieâ, the policeman proceeded to put pressure on his neck for 7 minutes. During these 7 minutes, civilians were trying to help George but were told if they get too close they will be detained or maced.Â
âBad people can wear uniformâ. Thatâs something my friend said to me today whilst we were taking about it and I donât think anything has ever made so much sense to me. The system is corrupt and thatâs the reality the governments want to cover up. They give murderers the power to murder with no consequence. These people do not wake up one day with the thought of âI want to kill someone todayâ and do it, itâs something theyâve been thinking on for a while. The (now fired) criminal involved in the murder of George Floyd is called Derek M. Chauvin. Derek M Chauvin was a Minneapolis Police Officer. The technique Chauvin used to detain George Floyd was NOT demonstrated as a part of the departments training. Derek Chauvin was put on leave in 2011 for an inappropriate police shooting of Alaskan Native American, Leroy Martinez. Chauvin was one of the officers involved in the brutal murder of Wayne Reyez, Reyez was a latino man who had 16 bullets forced into him with 42 rounds being fired at him. Chauvin has currently got 12 Police Brutality complaints against him in the Minneapolis Office of Police Conduct complaint database. They are all listed as âclosedâ, ânon-publicâ and âno disciplineâ. Derek M Chauvin is being represented by Tom Kelly, the same attorney who got Jeronimo Yavez aquitted (Yavez murdered Phaillandro Castile). Derek M Chauvin. Know his name. Let people know what heâs done. Spread awareness.
Racism is taught. That is something I strongly believe in. When we are born, we donât see colour and I mean that literally. Nobody wakes up thinking âtoday Iâm going to be racist.â, 99.9% of the time, villains in movies or a tv show is a person of colour and young children grow up watching these thinking that this is the norm. Kids then go to school and when they play cops and robbers or whatever it is, the kid with colour in his or her skin will be coined the villain simply because this is what they are conditioned to think. The fact that fear is instilled in people of colour from such a young age is so sad, itâs something iâve witnessed first hand. In school we are taught to love everyone no matter what but racism does not start and finish with school and the education system, itâs continued in the household, teachers can only do so much. The responsibility of educating children out of school hours then falls into the hands of parents. If you are a parent or guardian or have siblings, nieces, nephews, cousins, uncles, aunts, friends siblings etc, please make sure to educate them to be anti-racist, it must stop and the only way itâll happen is if we start doing what the older generations have done before us and teach those younger than us the right way. Racism is something so normalised that when we speak up for those who have been a victim of it, we get attacked and shunned upon. RACISM IS THE PROBLEM, NOT P.O.C!!!!!!!
There are people out there now protesting that âall lives matterâ and as much as that it is true, people do not see that the reason the Black Lives Matter movement has been created is simply because Black Lives Matter. White people, whether you are ethnic or not - as long as you have white skin and can westernise yourself and hide your heritage, are not in danger as much as people of colour. This is not me saying that if youâre from ethnic origin, you are not in danger, Iâm saying that if your skin isnât black then you are not waking up everyday in a modern world in fear of your life. Let me make it simpler to understand for those who will talk their shit; if you have 2 kids in front of you and one starts crying are you going to comfort the child in distress or the child who is completely fine? Obviously the child in distress, now apply this logic to the current racism problem we have. Black Lives Matter was created by the oppressed for the oppressed and those who support the struggle of the oppressed. It is not about all lives mattering, not everything is about the privileged so please, if youâve never been a target of racial profiling, shut the fuck up and let those whom have make their voices be heard loud and clear. People who sit there and say âall lives matterâ and donât support the BLM movement, you listen to their music, you appropriate their culture, you eat their food, you talk like them, you watch their movies but you donât want to join them in their suffering? You bleed the same blood, you breathe the same air, but if you have white skin, you are more likely to be heard, so please USE YOUR VOICE TO LET THIS BE KNOWN; WE WILL NOT STAND DOWN UNTIL EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN RACIALLY PROFILED, FACED POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDERED FOR THE COLOUR OF THEIR SKIN IS AVENGED. THEY CANT STOP ALL 7 BILLION OF US!!!
THE UK IS NOT INNOCENT EITHER!!!! GET THIS RIGHT, RACISM IS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!
REMEMBER THIER NAMES, FIGHT FOR THEM (UK);
MARK DUGGANÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â JIMMY MUBENGAÂ Â Â Â Â JOY GARDENER
SARAH REEDÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â MICHEAL POWELLÂ Â Â Â Â SEAN RIGG
SHEKU BEYOHÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â LEON BRIGGSÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â LEON PATTERSON
CHRISTOPHER ADLERÂ Â Â Â RICKY BISHOPÂ Â Â Â CYNTHIA JARRETTÂ
SMILEY CULTUREÂ Â Â Â Â Â BRIAN DOUGLASÂ Â Â Â CHERRY GROCE
DEREK BENNETTÂ Â Â Â Â Â KINGSLEY BURRELLÂ Â Â JOY GARDENER
RODGER SYLVESTERÂ Â Â Â Â Â AZELLE RODNEYÂ Â Â Â Â HABIB ULLAH
FARUK ALIÂ Â Â Â Â Â ADRIAN THOMPSONÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â JEAN CHARLES DE MENEZESÂ
DEMETRE FRAZERÂ Â Â Â ASTON MCLEANÂ Â SENI LEWISÂ
ANTHONY GRANGERÂ Â Â ROCKY BENNETTÂ Â Â ALTON MANNINGÂ Â Â
MARK NUNESÂ Â Â BELLY MUJINGAÂ Â SHUKRI ABDIÂ Â Â
