For the last couple months I have spent a lot of time on the topic of race relations and social inequality. The events like the death of Michael Brown and Eric Garner are bringing to national attention the flaws in American society. No one should be begging and pleading to breath. This in my opinion has such a deep meaning.  Eric Garner could literarily not breath and figuratively the people of America (of all races) cannot breath do to this injustice. It’s like a burden that people have to walk around with every day. Racism is literality like a “shackle” that can hold someone down with out cause or justification. So many people water post civil rights era  racism down and are consciously or unconsciously  content with it. My main question will always be how a state as New York as liberal as it claims to be, let this happen.