RIP



Like many Americans’ I am saddened by the news of George Zimmerman’s acquittal over the murder of Trayvon martin. It was truly a sad day, and it remains a sad day as everyone comes to the same conclusion that many of us have known for years, there is no equality, not just in America but in the world.

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Sometimes I wonder what it would’ve been like in the time of the civil war, or before that right when slavery started, or even in the time of Martin Luther king Jr. I wonder if the white people I know would be the same people enslaving people, or would they stand against their own. Saying their own in itself is a problem, we’re all people regardless of color. Regardless, I’m curious.

Then I remember Rodney King was less than twenty years ago, and now with Trayvon we’re back in the same place. Perhaps it’s not as bad, and someone might be angered by my comparison, but any kind of racial injustice, no matter how small, is still too much.

 I remember all the other things people are fighting for, like gay marriage, or any kind of equality and I’m reminded that those people are still out there. They’re not necessarily bad, but there are hundreds of millions of people that will do things just because that’s how it’s always been done. They don’t question it, and the injustice continues. 

I’m sure there are a lot of people like me who simply don’t understand why we’re fighting over these silly matters that are really none of our busy. Trayvon shouldn’t have died to show us a problem we have, and people shouldn’t fight for the right to be married, we shouldn’t have these issues to begin with.

RIP Trayvon  and everyone who’s lost their lives over the past few hundred years fighting for their freedom.