So this is about to be a very strongly opinionated text post, and I can guarantee that if you come at me with some bull to justify what is happening I will tear you apart, so please stay in your lane.
If you don't know, recently a black teen, Mike Brown, was gunned down in the street in Ferguson, by a policeman who claimed he had stolen something, though all witnesses have said otherwise. Basically, he was gunned down without reason, and because of that protests have started, many of which are peaceful, but there are also a few violent protests going on. And the media has only been focusing on the violent protests, or 'riots' as they call them. They pay no mind to the fact that the police are throwing tear gas, are shooting rubber bullets, and have brought out dogs on many of these protestors, most of them being peaceful protestors who haven't threatened the police at all.
That isn't even the worst of what I have seen, but that is the video that sums it up quite well. Basically, black people are starting to fight back, we are starting to stand up for ourselves against the oppressors, because if it isn't enough that Trayvon Martin was shot and murdered for walking down the street, it happens again with Mike Brown, and it is honestly revolting. And even more so what disgusts me is how white people have the audacity to try and tell the black community how to react in this situation, to try and dictate how we fight back. Which only shows even more how white Americans of today have been desensitized to the oppression of people of color, especially black people. Even though one of the police men referred to the black rioters as animals, even when the police are throwing teargas everywhere, even when police are trying to send the media away for god only knows why. White Americans still have the audaciy to throw their 10 cents in about how we should be responding, and I only have one thing to say.
Shut the up.
You aren't oppressed nor have you ever been oppressed. You don't have to worry about being randomly searched because of your skin color, you don't have to walk down the street paranoid because the cops might with you for no reason. You won't ever have to worry about your loved ones being shot and killed like an animal because of their skin color. And you want to know why you never had to?
Because your ancestors built up this country's system to cater to you, and when I say ancestors I mean your parents, grandparents, great grandparents.
All of them.
And it's horrifying because white people definitely didn't build this country, the slaves did, the Chinese workers did, people of color built this country, but white people have tried to take the credit instead and thus built a system that works against black people.
So please, keep your unneeded opinion to yourself, because it's about time we fight back.
Martin Luther King Jr. peacefully asked for racism to stop, and you saw what happened to his fellow protestors, they were killed, beat, and verbally abused. And in the end, he was assassinated by the US government.
Do you really think we are going to handle things peacefully any more?
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