#Alllivesmatter
PATRICIA
HOLT
JHop
Times Staff Writer
All
lives matter.
Why is there an all lives matter
hashtag? All lives will matter when black lives start to matter. All lives will
matter when black unarmed men stopped getting used as target practice getting fatally
shot down in front of their mother’s houses and in neighborhoods they lived in
all their lives. How many more black mothers are going to have to bury their
black sons until black lives start to mater? All lives will matter when police
officers who killed and harassed unarmed and innocent black men are no longer
called heroes and the officer who killed Eric Garner is in jail, but I guess
saying “I can’t breathe” isn’t a sign to let me go and that’s not saying that
you’re killing me and its perfectly fine to walk outside with a black hoodie
and snacks unless you’re another Travon martin then it could get your life
taken. Why is it that I fear for my life every time I walk outside?
I find it very confusing when my
friends and I can just be walking outside and get stopped by a police officer
because “we looked suspicious” but Dylann Roof can kill 9 black people in a
church and could be given a bullet proof vest to walk outside and be called a
trouble teen. I also find it very confusing that in school we only talk about
black history during the month of February; the shortest month in the year but
that's none of my business.
All lives matter only because black lives started to
matter. Saying all lives matter is like being at a breast cancer run and saying
cure all diseases yeah that’s cool but right now we're running for breast cancer.
All lives matter is cool and everything but all lives aren’t being taken right
now.