By now I should probably change what this blog is about because not only have I not been giving day to day updates about how my lap band journey is going, my last few posts have been off topic, but this is something that has been bothering me recently and I wanna use this blog to just vent my feelings on this. As all of you know the whole Black Lives Matter, Police brutality and just racism in general has been a huge topic and I just wanna give my thoughts on all of it.
Whenever I am online I try to stay away from places like YouTube and Facebook because the things I see regarding race usually piss me off, but tonight I was scrolling through both and came across this lady, she was African american and she had a lot of negative things to say about the Black lives Matters movement and black on black crime. First let me get one thing clear: I Fucking hate the term Black on Black crime, crime is crime period. In her rant, she basically criticize black lives matter saying that they neglect victims of black on black crime, She brought up a murder of a little African american girl who was murdered by a fellow African american and asked if her life mattered as well? Now some of you may say to yourself that is a good question, but no its not and im going tell you why. In my opinion the only reason the Black Lives matter movement has the media attention it does is because it is a way to further separate the races. When someone white sees Black lives matter, they are going to feel left out and perceive the movement as black people crying and making themselves victims. So immediately they dismiss the movement and the media knows that. I mean put yourself in a white suburban Americans shoes, one second they will see the Black Lives matters movement and in the next they see 20 people killed over the weekend in Chicago, I can see why they will begin to formulate that black people are violent in nature and that the Police may have not been in the wrong. Getting back to why the question is the wrong thing to ask, there are plenty of programs in inner cities that are out on the front lines trying to decrease the violence in black communities but they don't get any media attention. So yes that girls life did matter, there are people out there trying to stop what caused her death, but people like the woman from the video fail to mention that or are possibly ignorant to. Is there a problem with crime in our community yes, but we obviously have realized that. maybe if these programs got more funding or even just more widespread recognition, funding can be provided so they can do more in the community. Everyone likes to leave certain things out to benefit their agenda and i'm sick of that. I'm here right now admitting that there has been a celebration of gang culture and other negative cultures in the black community, but we have realized that. People like the lady in the video and many media outlets paint us as violent criminals who all push this violent culture and it is so far from the truth. I can note that poverty breeds violence and how the economic inequalities in these areas leads to violent culture but I would be seen as making excuses, So instead I salute programs like GMACC, Cure Violence, Don't Shoot NYC all trying to make a change in our community. I salute the programs all across the country trying to make a change, I see what they neglect to report. I'm going to end my rant right there because I can go on for days. I wanna end with this, before you formulate a opinion on something look at everything that is going on and happening, you don't have to take a side, you can stand in the middle and tell both sides why they are wrong and that's what i'm doing. Anyone that blames white people as the sole reason of African Americans problems are wrong and anyone that blames black people as the sole reason for black peoples problems are wrong as well. Their are many things contributing and we all have a part in this. We all need to come together, see the negative and positives about all our communities and work together to change them, and major breakthrough in change has happened when people united together don't forget that.
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