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Saturday, June 20, 2020
More Justice More Peace
Ahmaud Arbery
Trayvon Martin
Breonna Taylor
George Floyd
Michael Brown
May 23, 2020 a day that once again
changed the African American community and enraged the entire globe when
43-year old George Floyd was intentionally murdered in front of the whole
entire world while they recorded and filmed the entire thing without even a
distraction to stop them or to even bring pause. Flash forward we all mourned
his death along with his brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, his daughter, his
whole family, and the entire community of Minneapolis, North Carolina, and Houston,
Texas. George Floyd who was just an ordinary man who was a security guard life
was cut short really for no illegal reason. Just because he was an African
American 6 foot 6 man who was targeted by a police officer who was familiar
with his face. We all mourned, we cried, we celebrated his life, A list
celebrities came by to pay their respects to a man they never met, just heard
his story, and they felt sympathy for his entire family and community. Tiffany
Haddish, William Packer, Ludacris, Tyrese, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart, Reverend Al
Sharpton, Al B. Sure, and a whole slew of celebrities came by to share their
grief and support. They believe in the undying fight for justice. It’s still
not over this is not something that will just happen overnight.
This
will take tireless days and nights, weekends, the government, every single
neighborhood, every community organization and leader will have to get
involve.They need to establish Social
and Communication Programs to show and teach every police precinct and all law
enforcement. Show them the proper protocol interacting with different
pedestrians. They may want to consider advanced training with dealing with
public, proper body camera training when they are considering entering every
single home. The police enforcement every officer is offered a body camera when
they go to any kind of crime scene. Yet you notice although they have cameras
on their bodies. They aren’t monitoring the fact that they have their bosses
and their precinct plus hundreds of other cameras monitoring them on their cell
phones with each move they make. It’s one thing to sit and watch your co-worker
handle the situation but the situation became escalated with George Floyd and
Rashad Brooks’s cases. These were innocent men minding their own business and
each of these men were not breaking any laws at all. It’s incredible to me that
these people were targeted. I understand with Rashad’s case he was mistaken for
being inebriated inside the garage of a Wendy’s restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia.
Let’s just keep it real though anyone who’s at a fast food restaurant and has
come to get something to eat while they may have been slightly intoxicated.
They were not targeted directly, electrocuted by a taser, or murdered at night.
To everyone we all notice that two
officers who abused their authority and power. They used no kind of logic, no
real empathy in this situation. It wasn’t even a case where the man was
directly targeting them. They were having a bleak moment and figured they would
cause harm and inconvenience to an innocent African American man. It was a
situation that has already added a ton of kerosene to an inferno. It’s quiet
for now but for the past month it is been peaceful protests, an uproar from
everyone around the country disgusted and enraged by these senseless acts
against George Floyd, Rashad Brooks, Ahmad Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and the
hundreds of other souls who have passed away decade after decade due to an
unfair justice system. How do we make this right? Everyone needs to stop
focusing on the color of the skin and focus on the situation instead. We all
need to put on our human glasses not our race glasses. It’s a chance for people
to see that we have been abused, mistreated, discriminated against and certain
people suddenly get amnesia when they forget oh we are part of the country who
helped build and establish the livelihoods and success as immigrants and as
minorities who sailed across the Atlantic to come to America. How can you
forget we are descendants of the people who came across this country that added
cool, flair, a spicy concoction to this great country. If it weren’t for all of
these minorities America would simply be made up of just pure wonder bread. Now
you figure that out. We deserve more justice, more peace! More Justice, More
Peace for every American who is born in a hospital or at home on American soil,
who’s family started small business or multi billion dollar conglomerates, who
wiped the noses and behinds of small children, and cleaned every single home.
We deserve to see more justice and more peace. Quit killing innocent men and
women. Focus on the ones who need professional medical attention and legal
repercussions put against them.
I am calling out the next
presidential candidate to get ready to step up you’re in for an inferno and
it’s not over yet. Buckle up because you’re about to go on a ride with this
country. I ask him to step up and create a dream team and an administration
that will knock everyone out when he comes into office on January 20, 2021. We
aren’t going down without a fight our country has endured too much in the past
two decades and we need a leader and team of people who are willing to
sacrifice their time, their sweat, their tears, their hearts, because they want
to see a great country who represents and says what they mean when it comes to
the constitution, the bill of rights, and all law in all 50 states that we
aren’t going to be a laughing stock anymore. We are the most powerful country
on the planet and we will straighten out the injustices and prejudices of this
world. Our forefathers believed in equal treatment, intelligence, and common
sense. It’s a shame they have abused their power, their authority, and broke
against the promise of America. We all deserve around the globe More Justice,
More Peace, and Equal Rights for all.
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