How? That's just my question. How can people look at what is happening in the USA and stay oblivious? How can they see the way black people are treated and do nothing? How do they see all the injustice present no only in the USA but throughout the whole entire world and not speak up?
SPEAK UP!! How can you not speak up when you have a voice? How can you stay silent when you could be speaking? Speak your heart out, protect what you believe in! Above all, do something! If you can do something why are you not doing it? It's impossible to not know what's happening in the USA, so how can you know what's happening and stay cold through it? How can you not get chills when you see what those people go trough every fucking single day of their lives?
I CAN'T BREATHE! George Floyd said it. Guess what? That only means "stop" when you are white! He died, asphyxiated, 8 minutes pinned to the ground 'cause he had a fake 10 dollar bill that wasn't even fake!! The cop that did it wasn't the first. It is craved into most minds in the police that black people are evil, if you stop them at the road, they aren't reaching for the ID, they reaching for a gun. If they are in a wealthy neighbourhood they do not live there, they must be stealing. Why is it like that? What have they done?
"They've done some shitty things in the past you know, like stealing and stuff" - they say. Have white people not? Have we not? Seems to me like everyone is forgetting that white people literally turned pretty much every race they could into slaves and sexual toys. Seems to me like everyone is forgetting that white people literally formed hatred groups like KKK. Seems to me like everyone is forgetting Hitler, Mussolini and many other dictators were white. If history is the deciding factor here, then everything should have been the other way around. Still, in the twenty-first century, black people are still fighting for something they should NOT, IN ANY CIRCUNSTANCE, be fighting for.
What frightens me the most is that, besides some series and movies that show it, I was oblivious to what has been happening in the USA for centuries. Well, I don't think we see it in my country too much, I've never saw it happening right in front of my eyes either. Still, even if it's half way across the ocean, I can't stay quiet. I cannot look at the pictures of black people, killed by the same ones that should be protecting them, and not feel sorrow. How can you let something like this get to this state? George Floyd wasn't the trigger, he was the last straw. I'm so fucking glad people decided to riot, so fucking glad they decided to fight for their rights, 'cause I may be pretty damn pale but still will be right behind their backs.
"Your generation is so lazy, always in their phones" MY generation is fighting for a better world, taking down the piece of shit YOUR generation left us. WE DID NOT cause all the environmental problems striking our planet, YOU DID. WE WILL NOT let this stupid racist oblivious behaviour YOU HAVE in your mind pass us through, we will fight, fight, and continue fighting until the world is as equal as it can be 'cause we may always be in our phones, but we are doing something good with them, which is more that what we cans ay about you. Don't let yourself be mistaken, this "lazy generation" is going to make the world way better than yours.
"Do you think you can do anything, do you think you can change the world? You are just some girl from somewhere" yes, I am. I am truly just "some girl from somewhere" and yes, I can change the world. Alone? Maybe not, but together we can do it. Imagine if everyone thought like you do! Imagine if Martin Luther King Jr. did not stand for what he thought was right 'cause we was just "some boy from somewhere". Imagine if Nelson Mandela did not stand for what he thought was right 'cause we was just "some boy from somewhere". Just imagine a world where everyone had that retrograde mind and no one acted, no one tried to change the world. Imagine where we would be now. I have imagined it and I do not what to live in that world, so yes, I speak up and yes, I'm trying to change it even if I'm "some girl from somewhere".
"All lives matter" yes, they do love. Every fucking single life out there matters. But, understand this: the issue right now is not about other lives, it's about black one's and how they have suffered too much injustice over the years. It's about how we need to change what's happening, it's about how we need to be activist and expose the rotten apples in the police, 'cause yes, not all of them are bad! But, again, right now it's not about the other lives ou the good cops, it's about stopping the suffering bad, racist cops have 'cause to black people.
Use your voice. Speak up.
"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it." - Dumbledore, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
By Me, some girl somewhere, trying to change the world
