Michael Brown Monologue

Michael Brown
“I saw the barrel of the gun pointed at my friend, then I saw the fire come out of the barrel.”Now when I, when mike passes me, he looked directly into my eyes and he saw where I was- where I was crouched down. He says, verbatim, ‘Keep runnin’, bro “I’m watchin as he turns around. The officers face-to-face with him verbatim from where I was standing, but I know he tried to talk to the officer and he tried to get out a sentence, but before he could fully get out the sentence, the officer then fired several more shots.
Eric Garner
“Get away [garbled] for what? Every time you see me, you want to mess with me. I’m tired of it. It stops today. Why would you....? Everyone standing here will tell you I didn’t do anything. I did not
Please just leave me alone. I told you the last time, please just leave me alone.”

These two events brought back the memories or lessons my father would preach to me when i was younger, the type of conversations I would often ignore and nod my head to pass time. Racism was a misfortune I thought was left behind in my father’s generation and that I would never have to experience in my life time. Racism has been a problem in my life, even though I thought it would never be. The books and movies my father made me watch opened
Your reputation was destroyed if you kiss a black girl, even if the boy who kissed her was black. Last year before a PR meeting there was a rumour that one boy (white) had kissed a girl (black) at a party that weekend, I got really excited and told all everyone this is the new South Africa, the boy turned up to the meeting hiding his face and avoiding eye contact, after the meeting I grabbed him and asked him “I heard you got with a hot girl this weekend?”, he looked at me and said “Sies! I would never do that, why are you guys making lies about me? I never got with a black chick!” I didn’t understand why he would react they way he did. I realised racism is still alive they are just concealing it. Small things like when someone tells someone they have an African Accent, they cannot clarify what an African accent is given there are 53 countries in Africa. Some of them do not know any better, some are taught racism at home without even knowing, some have been raised calling black people coons and derogatory words but there are some that look at other ethnic groups as inferior to whites and refuse to change their opinion because the private school boys agree with him. For years, standing up to racism has been, made to seem ‘boring’