When the oppressed are ignored...

I'm not a fan of violence and this current situation does not change this.

Look at what's happening. A man is shot and killed and it takes a month and two weeks after video is made available to arrest and charge the people responsible. A man is killed as a Police Officer kneels on his neck and he gasps for breath. Also, on video and the officer is charged with 3rd degree murder and manslaughter - meaning we aren't holding him responsible for intentional acts, only the result. But these are just the last of years and years of this. Yes, we made strides in civil rights in the 60's but the promise of the post MLK world is still unachieved. Black people live in fear because white people are afraid of them and the very people who are paid to protect have that bias - to the point where black people are arrested, brutalized and killed at rates that far exceed that of white people.

Peaceful protests since the 1960s whose results can only be measured in millimeters since the right to vote and the "ending" of segregation laws. When the French people were starving and the king ignored them, they had to take to the streets to affect change. The king lost his head.

All that Black Americans (and every other nob-white ethnicity closely following behind) have gotten in regards to equal rights since the 60s are platitudes. Promises. Hopes and Prayers. What will it take to affect change? If voices were being heard and change was happening, we wouldn't be having this national conversation. And the world is watching, with many of the same issues to a lesser or greater extent.

The establishment wants this to fade into the news cycle. But it's not and it shouldn't. The system is broken and needs to be fixed. People are dying. Dying.

We cannot ignore wrongful death. Cannot. Want to fix the protesting? Change the system. Announce a national task force to revamp law enforcement and the criminal justice system. Show that real work is being done to get root cause and solve it. Platitudes won't work. Ignorance won't work.

Want to solve it, government? Do something real, holistic and immediate.