There was a fight, and yes they 'won'. A people were treated unjustly by a system that preached justice and equality. The same system spoke and documented copiously about the need to respect the rights and liberties of all and sundry. Homo sapiens first! That system even now, protects some creatures lower on the evolutionary ladder. I dare say, they care more for the second class creatures. And won't hesitate to sue you in the event of an 'unjust' treatment of the second class creatures. Interesting, isn't it? For years the darker pigment suffered all forms of abuses. From restrictions of various forms, physical abuses, etc. The darker pigment suffered!! The world witnessed a phenomenon which one would wish never was repeated. Even after the activists secured redemption through various channels and the final one and most effective being signatories to a properly and well thought through document, here we are. There seem to be a never ending trend to this humongous madness and barbarism. Though they claim to be a model to the world.
Yes, Dr King Jr had a dream, that the content of one's character should be the basis for judgement not just the mere sight of a darker complexion at least some day. Today, we hear stories that make us think we have not developed. The same society making life unbearable for the darker complexion. I believe everyone who goes against the law must be dealt with regardless. So the criminals should all face the music. The darker pigment haven't done themselves any good because they encourage the youth not to care and just survive no matter what. Even in music we see their lifestyles; terrible. They talk guns, sex, drugs, violence. They always send the wrong signal about the content of their characters unknowingly. This makes the authorities extra careful and vigilant on their movements. A system may not be fair but don't give them any reason to suspect you or doubt or mistreat you. You're in the minority and won't survive in the case of violence . Leave them with no other choice than to respect, support, listen to you and above all love you. Dr King did it! Madiba did it!
The mere signing of papers should not have been the end to this backwardness. It should have gone with a practical one. To wit, a conscious effort to training responsible blacks who could influence policies and decision-making. The fight should have continued in a different mode. They relaxed thinking everything had been conquered. Hear Dr King Jr speak about what the signatures did and could not do, “Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.” The kind of lifestyle we expect to enjoy is dependent on what we are willing to sacrifice. This doesn't in anyway justify the killings of the darker complexions by law enforcers but a call to duty. Just maybe a reorientation of the darker pigment could help. A move away from gangster stuff, just maybe healthy. The deaths of the police officers possibly a reprisal attack, further broke my heart because Dr King Jr again opined that, “When you are right, you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.”
It is true that black lives matter as well as other lives. It hurts but we shall overcome someday. It may just be the case that they really never loved us. It was pretentious! I am beginning to suspect hypocrisy in the way things have turned. I hazard though but it may just be the case.They simply agreed for a deal to soothe the hearts of many. But had disguised motives on how to carry out the same agenda unbeknownst to the other party. I see a simiar trend in colonisation. They allowed us to politically liberate ourselves but knew how to re-enslave us. We are no longer directly ruled yet ruled. Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first black leader prophesied! It is a similar tactic adopted to punish black Americans in the states.
The American situation took me to the works of the 1986 Nobel Prize laureate and poet, Wole Soyinka from the Yoruba land in Nigeria. A perfect proverb for the situation in America. "The monkey and gorilla may claim oneness but the monkey is Monkey and the gorilla, Gorilla"
Is it the case of two groups claiming to be one yet know they're not??. Or Does the butterfly think himself a bird?
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