(ThyBlackMan.com) Ever since the incidents in Ferguson, MO, Baltimore, MD, and other cities you have to ask yourself is this movement really making a lot of sense except making black people look like straight animals with their destructive ways. Meaning how Michael Brown’s stepfather had got up and told people to destroy their community. As the movement progressed there’s been less “black” involvement since recent protests showed more whites and other ethnic groups involved more than black.
The movement has been moreso used as a platform to amplify someone else’s agenda and marketing merchandise. The movement
has really been full of “actorvists” who have become caricatures who find acting rebellious and revolutionary to be in style. Let’s cover some basics here starting off black lives don’t really matter to black people.
Black people are the only race that has shown little regard in supporting our own and you find so many blacks criticizing and ridiculing in a degrading form of blacks who actually think outside the box and assume that articulation and intelligence is seen as being and acting “white”. The rhetoric that’s spewed in a lot of speeches and protest marches serves no purpose it’s nothing but words and no actual change.
We still deal with racism except it’s not dealing with whites it’s among our own people. African-Americans have always had this complexity of putting our own down through degrading remarks and showing little support for their own people. If you actually engage in conversation with other blacks they usually have something negative to say and arent very supportive. Their idea of support is someone who’s got a segregated mindset to where it’s only about black issues and not looking at the big picture.
Let’s be honest black lives only matter when it’s convenient to push for change. Yet the change starts within our own community by holding the parent or guardians of gang members and drug pushers accountable for allowing them to reside in their homes and allowing them to continue their criminal and violent behavior with little regards for the neighborhoods they hold hostage with the endless shootings and rampant violence that seems to never end.
So to say that black lives matter is a gross understatement because black lives didn’t matter years ago when gangs and drug pushers had relentlessly murdered people in major cities across America and yet it’s of no concern, but let a kid who had a history of violent and criminal behavior get killed from fighting with an officer after being ordered to stop had created this movement that seemed to only aim for the lives of black people. The question is why is it only black lives that matter what about the lives of ALL people that should matter regardless of skin color and ethnic backgrounds.
Staff Writer; Nafeesah Abdullah
