I am not saying I am for revenge or that those who have brutalized black people should pay by death for what they have done, but their should be an equal penalization not based on race. Significantly, the one thing that stood out was, “Racism been supposed to die when Martin Luther King died.” Today, our society is still building on the foundation of white supremacy whether it is visible or not. One man and many other black nationalists during The Civil Rights Movement only impacted just enough for the future of those to go on about their daily lives as a person, because most were killed for speaking on their oppression. If they died without even seeing the change, what chance does that have later of repeatedly telling them the truth in order to still create this change? It still continues to reprehend black people of their value and keep them captive. This notion is still imbedded in our society as police brutality and it comes in many forms of many different circumstances.

Instances

 

1. Freddie Gray was arrested for catching the eye of a police officer and running away. He was later handcuffed and shackled to the floor, leading to sustained injuries during a prolonged ride and died. In Baltimore and other areas, his death prompted protests and riots. The six officers involved in his arrest were indicted and charged with murder including other criminal charges.
2. Natasha McKenna, who had schizophrenia, was tasered four times for being non-compliant with deputies. Due to the tasering and her schisophrenia, she later went into cardiac arrest. Tasers were found to have played a role in her death, but no criminal charges were filed. Since then the jail in Virginia has banned the use of tasers.
3. Christian Taylor allegedly got into an altercation with a responding officer towards a potential burglary at a car dealership where and an SUV had been driven into a showroom window. The officer shot him and was later fired by the police department.

These instances and a lot of others led to the #BlackLivesMatter movement, which fights against the police brutality on black people in order to break down this system of the color black being equal to a target. But, still nothing is changing because the videos that go viral or of those who have been brutalized and are now dead and can not speak for themselves. In fact, this makes change worse because it takes months and years of investigation to classify whether it was on behalf of the victim, the black person or the authority, the white officer. Even those who join the fight may speak on it, there is always some hidden or unknown within the system that we as people just will never know under these white sheets.