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BLACK LIVES MATTER !

Hello, I'm writing this after witnessing pure madness for a week. Derik Chauvin killed George Floyd a week ago, a week ago everything changed. All the states are protesting and so are 18 others countries, 2020 is the year of changes.

Just the fact that racism still exists in 2020 is absurd to me. Black community has been fighting racism for hundred years YET, no one are listening to them. They deserve equality, they deserve to be treated correctly because WE ARE ALL HUMANS. WE ALL BLEED THE SAME.

What world we live in???? Cops doing the opposite of what they're supposed to do? They're supposed to protect INSTEAD they attack, they tased, gassed and hurt people without any reasons. I'm not staying that all cops are bad but, all these videos I've seen are showing the opposite.

I saw a video earlier where they pushed an old man who was protesting in peace! They were fifty against ONE OLD MAN. They pushed him onto the ground but he started bleeding and, when the only man who had a human reaction tried to help, his comrade pushed him away because they're assholes.

I was saying this months ago, I'm saying it today and I will say it later. BLACK LIVES MATTER. YOU matter, your live matters. We will fight for you and for your rights. NO ONE should live in fear. I can't go protest but I'm doing my best to help from home!

Martin Luther King knew, he knew we could work together because we are all brothers and sisters. Society saw that he was right and decided to separate Black and White cause why not? Let me tell you, this was WRONG. Color means shit, alright? It means SHIT.

This wise man once said: "We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools."

I'm disgusted to see how many WHITE police officers went away with .MURDER. because they were fucking white. They will NEVER know what their family been through because, they're not scared to send their children to school, they're not scared to jog in their neighborhood cause NO ONE will look at them differently. Why? Oh, cause they are white.

White people needs to realise that they are PRIVILEGED. Their skin color is a shield against a shitty life, black people don't have that privilege. They don't have the privilege to talk when a police officer arrest them, they don't have the privilege to play robbers and cops, they don't have the privilege to do A LITTLE MISTAKE and write a bad check. They are being killed for this, KILLED.

And don't even start with that bullshit "ALL LIVES MATTER" because they won't, not until BLACK LIVES MATTER.

I'm not black but I stand for what's right. I want justice for every families out there, waiting for these asshole who killed their kids, husbands, dads, moms.

STAND FOR WHATS RIGHT.

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HOW TO EDUCATE YOURSELF:

here is a link leading you to a google doc with petitions, way to get in touch with the law, resources and many more.
link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-0KC83vYfVQ-2freQveH43PWxuab2uWDEGolrzNolks/edit

there is also a youtube video from zoe amira, a black creator. it's 56 mins long with art and music from talented black artists. it's filled with ads and all the money from it will go to several blm organizations.
link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&mute=0&v=bCgLa25fDHM&autoplay=1

you can also read books !
just mercy written by bryan stevenson
how to be an antiracist written by Ibram X. Kendi
so you want to talk about race written by Ijeaoma Oluo
and way more !

there are movies!
13e (youtube & netflix)
just mercy (to rent & amazon prime video)
when they see us (netflix)
dear white people (netflix)
the hate u give (hulu)
and others

and podcasts that talk about racial equality and justice!
1619 by the new york times
about race
code switch by npr
the diversity gap
and others

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