LONG THREAD PLEASE READ: confession time: I am a priveledged white middle class male. The first time my girlfriend showed me an article about George Floyd, I was appalled by the inhumanity and cruelty of the officer who murdered this black man pleading for his life, however...
I was initially numb to the meaning of this single act. As a member of Generation Z, my life has been full of tragedy and turmoil relating to police brutality and racism, all seeming to be in the background to my decent upbringing in a southern home. Hearing about such travesties
Was nothing new... I hated the violence and have developed morals based on these events but have never fully paid mind to them. It pains me to say that it has taken the entire world to wake me from my trance and shatter my rose tinted glasses crafted by my love of retro escapism.
As a member of the #chillsynth #synthfam #vaporwave communities and creator and listener of #synthwave , I’ve seen many other artists already pledge support of #BLM. I’ve watched as corporations and organizations post solid black pictures in solidarity with the cause and I have
Lamented and felt ashamed that I (as of now, being a new 18 year old) am too poor to donate and also have been silent on social mediums aside from discord. So today I act. After watching the documentary “13th” about the use of prison as a medium of racial prejudice and a tool for
Neo-Slavery, and after hearing a family member read to me names and descriptions of innocent black PEOPLE who have had their LIVES taken senselessly by inherently flawed police systems, the pain has become too much to bear. I can no longer scroll past and
Quietly whisper my sentiments... I can no longer sit Idly by and hope other people do the talking for me because I’m afraid of my own communication skills. The United States is inherently flawed, in a myriad of ways, but currently the most important and pressing flaw to be
Addressed is the flawed policing systems that we have. Police officers in America are equipped like soldiers and prowl the streets hunting for crime, sometimes going so far as to create LETHAL incidents out of escalating petty accusations (i.e. suspected forgery) and because of
Our flawed training systems and education systems, black people are prime targets based on deeply ingrained cultural influences from eras of injustice. I have never been afraid of the police for my own sake but I fear for the sake of my friends who are part of black communities.
Also, Let it be known that I stand against all injustice... to all of you that argue and say “all lives matter” in response to these current events: nobody is excluding you. Black lives are the ones being threatened RIGHT NOW so it is of utmost importance that we remember and
Spread the message that black lives matter JUST AS MUCH AS everyone else who may have had it better historically. Please.
I’m not sorry for this wall of text.
There is no “TL;DR”.
Read it.
#BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeforBreonnaTaylor #NoJusticeNoPeace
I’m not sorry for this wall of text.
There is no “TL;DR”.
Read it.
#BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeforBreonnaTaylor #NoJusticeNoPeace
