Duwand Constant
Black lives matter, all lives matter, but what really matters? With so much of what appears to be police brutality against the black community, responses have been pouring out. Protesters have assembled, riots have commenced and even democratic rallies and speeches such as that of Bernie Sanders have gone interrupted. Many people claim that the system is set up against black people or that it is designed against the success of a black person. However, as a black man in America I feel it’s time that black people start to acknowledge their accountability on these matters. While it’s not the fault of the victims, I do believe it is those within that victim’s very own community that plays a part. As a black man I always ask myself am I part of the cause or the solution? A death is always tragic no matter who it is or even the circumstances.
I’ve heard from numerous people in the black community that the government is trying to keep the black community down, and the system is set up in a way to aid our failure. While I agree with some of these notions, I also know this isn’t the case every single time.
I believe many of the police brutality killings that have occurred within the black community recently stem not primarily of that of a racist dictation but more so that of distrust that different races have for each other. TheAtlantic.com primarily reports that what creates a distrust among different races is that of fear, in the sense of not knowing how to properly interact with one another. Which makes complete sense to me, because if we look at those who stem from different racial counterparts, would it be out of place to say that a black person would probably interact differently with say an Asian person whom they don’t know? Especially if there was an obvious cultural difference or barrier of say either language or that of appearance and dress?
For many of those who maybe don’t interact with many people outside their race in numerous capacities (and yes it does happen), media images may be all they have go by as to what their ideology behind other races. A lot of times many races tend to stick among each other due to cultural reasons. While understandable, it allows a separation and divides to only expand more among us. So a lot of what stems are what we feed into by the media? While we can’t control the entire media because what it puts out is inevitable. However it only puts out what it knows will get a response by other people. Therefore I feel whatever is simply negative or what may be defaming to our respective racial communities are things we shouldn’t feed into nor support. This is a tough notion for many to grasp if certain things, music or media images have been staples in their lives for the longest time. Although, this is the only way I think change will be brought about to even showing the masses that certain lives do matter as all do.
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