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[tooeyeten]

20. When do black lives matter

Think past history and we are again witnessing history like no previous time.

In the Emancipation Proclamation, black lives were supposed to matter. Before that Dred Scott intended that black lives were more than owned. Fast forward, Brown v Board of Education, in 1954, black lives mattered when it came to education and the Constitution. Still in 1960 Ruby Bridges life msttered when she needed Federal protection to attend grade school.

Then before and during the Freedom Summer, black lives mattering was a problem in some American communities, beating, lynching, shooting blacks was a regular event with no consequence to any perpetrator, while water fountains, bathrooms, lunch counters etc were segregated. Medgar Evers life didn't matter, neither did MLK's in 1968. VRA eventually signed indicating black voting rights mattered.

IMHO "black lives matter" are sounding an alarm about events with law enforcement. Even after Rodney King in 1991 seems country continues to have a problem even a blindman could see. What's different? Social media tells every event everyday that cannot be ignored, and shouldn't be. Who speaks up, takes a mic to say black lives matter will be the first to be denigrated because its uncomfortable, but is it really more uneasy than the unarmed person beaten, shot even killed? I don't know but these activists gave me a lot to ponder.