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I Remember part 2

  PART TWO #IREMEMBER We should not be condemning the people in these communities, instead, we should be talking about how we can help these poverty and violently ran communities become thriving and beautiful neighbourhoods. We need meaningful solutions to help these communities combat the destructive norm that has became so pervasive inside of them. These communities need resources and not condemnation because forces more powerful than them is responsible for creating the despair and hopelessness that exist with them. Some of us will make it out of these communities, but the sad fact is, the majority will not. This disadvantage creates the disparity between black people in regards to the haves and have nots, and fuels the tension that breeds not only hateful and deadly thoughts, but deadly actions that causes catastrophic pain within the community. I read and see black people condemning one another because of what's going on in these communities, but I do not see the same black pe...

I Remember

  I REMEMBER Elijah McClain, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Hadiya Pendleton, Sandra Bland, Clementa Pinckney, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and so many other Black men and women that was killed by police. I continue to think of you, I continue to mourn you and I continue to miss you. Your murders haunt my days and nights because if this was a just and fair society, you would still be with us. But this society towards you has never been just, it has always been prejudiced. This society has always hated you in very large part because of the color of your skin and they have used that against you at every intricate part when it came to the creation of this country. Your lives were snatched before the totality of your greatness was realized, not because you were committing a crime, or in a war fighting for your country that doesn't love and treat you as you love and treat her, but because you were black and those police officers wanted to kill you for it. They couldn't ...