Black Lives Matter Speech

A mother and two children are in the back of a car. As she looks in the rear view mirror, the children can see in her eyes the fear of her future. They question, what could this really come from? They turn their heads to a knock on the window to find their mother facing a gun. As tears fall down her cheek, they know to stay calm, but inside they are in a total frenzy as to what is to come. Shots ring out. Someone is crying. Someone is screaming. Someone is bleeding. Bystanders are left in shock and in a panic. This is the life we live. The oppression of Blacks in the twenty- first century has escalated to the point of death in the street, to "fight the power" of the racial oppression, the movement was founded to allow the world to know that despite racism and oppression running rampant even today, the Black community will not be defined by these stereotypes. Taking these few points into consideration, I support the movement of Black Lives Matter. To understand the movement itself, we must first understand the background, question if God is racist, understand the
The era in which we live shows of Black poverty and white supremacy, Black slums and ghettos, and that through hundreds of years, they are still being prejudiced against. Despite the fact that for hundreds of years, there have been those who do, in fact break every stereotype ever set for the Black community. However, seeing as the only headlines we have seen here recently have been, "Police Officer Guns Down Black Driver In Front Of His Girlfriend And Her Child," or "Black teen shot 16 times," or "Black child with BB gun shot by police in Columbus, Ohio," it becomes relatively easy to believe that whatever supernatural, or celestial being that has our every move planned out, has picked and chosen His own side to cheer