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All Lives Cannot Matter Until

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All Lives Cannot Matter Until
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I am a proud African-American woman and I am so beyond frustrated with this country right now. All I see is violence in this country. How can you expect me to feel safe in a country of nothing but hatred and violence?

All this week on social media has been nothing but anger and bullshit. Flat out bullshit. Innocent black people getting killed for what? Explain. Please, let me know what they did so wrong.

Philando Castile was reaching for his license and registration and was killed by police.

Alton Sterling was outside a store selling CD's and was shot and killed by police.

Key word: killed by police.

All I see is violence by police officers who are trained for stuff like this. You are threatened by one person. Y'all feel like y'all's lives are in danger because of one person? If someone sits there and ask the officer what they are getting arrested for, they have the right to be treated like a human being. Instead of being thrown to the ground like a child.

Now, protests are going on all over the country and police are in combat gear like something is going to happen. All people want is justice. No one wants violence. This is all for justice but no police officer sees that.

I just saw a video this morning of a female just talking to a crowd and the police grabbed her and started arresting her for no reason. I don't know about anyone else but the pictures and the way everything is going is how it was when black people just wanted equality and justice back in the '60s.

Shooting is never the answer.Never. I have a brother that's in the United States Army, a very respectable kid. What if he's driving one day and the police think he's a threat and shoots him? Pretty drastic but it's true. There is no justice in this country. You are free but to an extent.

I am tired of people saying black people need to stop playing the victims. Open your eyes, people, we are the victims.

I don't even want to have children in this world with the chance of them getting killed for just being black. I don't want my children in a world where they feel like they are hated by everyone. I don't want to have to bury my children because a police officer was threatened by them living. No mother should have to bury her child.

I don't feel safe in this country. I live every day with the hope of just making it to the next because you don't know what will happen next. We have someone running for the presidency, who is suppose to represent America as a whole and we have someone who obviously don't care about black lives. Who has KKK members and Nazis extremists at their rallies and sees nothing wrong with it. The fact is that he might win.

How can a white kid shoot up a school and then go to trial after killing innocent people and be declared as 'mentally ill'. But let a black kid go to a school and shoot it up and kill innocent people and see what happens? The justice system always has an excuse for white people:

"Oh, jail time would do them badly."
"They had a troubled childhood because their parents."
"They were troubled in school."
"They have a mental illness."

@iamDezmonddddd tweeted this on July 10, 2016 following the recent events:

This is an average black male of America. Like how is this okay?

Oh and f*ck everyone who says #AllLivesMatter. Listen here, #BlackLivesMatter right now because all lives can't matter until black lives matter. Don't tell me you think there is equality in this country. If you are white, be an African-American in this country for a week. Do the same stuff you always do but as an African-American. See the difference. Don't come at me and tell me black people are overrated. No, black people are sick and tired of police and this justice system doing nothing but killing and getting rid of us. It's nice to see all races coming together to get justice. In October last year, white students at UCT, in Cape Town, South Africa, made a 'human shield' in front of black students so police didn't arrest them for having a demonstration.

This won't stop until there is justice and equality in this country. I will never stop being proud of being African-American. We are all people. We all deserve freedom and justice.

Just like Jesse Williams said," Just because we are magic, doesn't mean we are not real." If you aren't up to date on his acceptance speech for the Humanitarian Award at the BET Awards...Click here to listen to it.

No justice, no peace. Prosecute the police.

The first tweet you see is from Activist, Deray McKesson, who was arrested that same night the tweet was sent out. The rest of the tweets are from real people from Twitter.

#BlackLivesMatter

XOXO,

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