” You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.”
This quote breaks my heart. I wasn’t aware of how bad racism was till the BLM movement took place and my friend told me ” keep an extra eye on your surroundings, the black person in the room is always eyed down”. As much as I wanted my peer to be wrong , he wasn’t. The amount of police brutality because of a pigment on someone’s skin has increased over the years. For example George Floyd. There was no reason the man had to die. Even after his death, racist people made jokes around his death. Another example who is Andrew Brown Jr. He was assumed to use his car as a ” deadly weapon” even though they stated he hadn’t had any weapons to begin with. All these innocent souls being lost because of the color of skin, The same skin that covers our bones and no matter what shade, we all bleed the same blood.
Very powerful response to a very potent quote, Shagota.