Jamyla Bolden was shot and killed by who we now know was De'Eris Brown, 21, in Ferguson on Tuesday while doing her homework. Her life was the black life that didn't matter. This year in Chicago, 243 black people have already died at the hands of another black assailant. There have been no protests, no outrage. Why not? It's quite disturbing to be honest, that a crowd who is supposedly dedicated to making sure "black lives matter" picks and chooses which black life matters and which doesn't.
To those people who give in to this kind of rhetoric... sigh... I don't know what to say to you. You make me sad at heart. You react with fierce anger when someone drops the colossal revelation that all lives do in fact matter, yet say or do nothing when a crazed black man murders three white people on live television. You people know who you are. It's pretty clear that you don't think all lives matter. You hypocrites.
When a white cop shoots and kills a black thug on the street, it's police brutality. Yet, when a poor innocent little black girl dies at the hands of another black man, or when a white journalist and her white crew are murdered in cold blood by yet another black man, it's a gun problem. No, it is once again evident that you don't think black lives, or ultimately that ALL lives matter.
All this racial animosity, all these protests and wanton destruction of property... all for criminals who were brought to ultimate justice, by paying with their lives. Criminals who tried to take the life of a cop and wound up losing their own. What do you think happens when you point a gun at a cop? Were you not expecting there to be consequences?
I was taught when I was younger, that if you point a gun at someone, you'd better be ready to pull the trigger. Think about that for a minute. Since when does the life of a black criminal guilty under the law for committing felonious deeds matter more than the life of an innocent 9 year old black girl?
I remember a time when people cherished all life, not just the black or the white, but all life. But now it's all politics. When blacks kill one another, black lives don't matter... that's clearly evident, as we can see in the case of Jamyla Bolden or in Chicago.
I'm convinced now that life doesn't have the same value it used to. And that scares me.
To those people who give in to this kind of rhetoric... sigh... I don't know what to say to you. You make me sad at heart. You react with fierce anger when someone drops the colossal revelation that all lives do in fact matter, yet say or do nothing when a crazed black man murders three white people on live television. You people know who you are. It's pretty clear that you don't think all lives matter. You hypocrites.
When a white cop shoots and kills a black thug on the street, it's police brutality. Yet, when a poor innocent little black girl dies at the hands of another black man, or when a white journalist and her white crew are murdered in cold blood by yet another black man, it's a gun problem. No, it is once again evident that you don't think black lives, or ultimately that ALL lives matter.
All this racial animosity, all these protests and wanton destruction of property... all for criminals who were brought to ultimate justice, by paying with their lives. Criminals who tried to take the life of a cop and wound up losing their own. What do you think happens when you point a gun at a cop? Were you not expecting there to be consequences?
I was taught when I was younger, that if you point a gun at someone, you'd better be ready to pull the trigger. Think about that for a minute. Since when does the life of a black criminal guilty under the law for committing felonious deeds matter more than the life of an innocent 9 year old black girl?
I remember a time when people cherished all life, not just the black or the white, but all life. But now it's all politics. When blacks kill one another, black lives don't matter... that's clearly evident, as we can see in the case of Jamyla Bolden or in Chicago.
I'm convinced now that life doesn't have the same value it used to. And that scares me.
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