I Wish
The murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor's at the hands of the Police, propelled the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020. The protests and rallies for justice highlighted the ultimate " V irus" that daily plagues people of color in what is so called "The Greatest Country". The virus I speak of is not COVID but racism. And after the many articles and documentaries that I have read and viewed in this course, I propose the exact same question as James Baldwin in his "I Am Not Your Nigger" documentary: " White people have to find out in their own hearts why it was necessary to have a nigger in the first place? To clarify: The African American did NOT ask to come to America!!! The real deal: The African American was involuntarily brought to this country in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade over 400 years ago, yet African Americans, descendents of these slaves, have yet to come close to acquiring equality nor gener...