How Do You Like to Be Treated?

Do you treat people in the same manner you desire to be treated?

Photo by Kamil Feczko on Unsplash

This is an important question, because recently it feels like people are not answering it by their actions.

Do you want to be potentially murdered simply due to the color of your skin? Do you want to make a loved-one fatally sick because you were exposed to a virus? Are you fond of people yelling at you, insulting you, or calling you names? Does it make you feel good when you are treated inhumanely, disrespectfully, or as lesser than other people?

I’m pretty certain the answer to all of the above questions — by 99% of people — would be NO.

So how come the above are open for debate?

Black Lives Matter is NOT a terrorist organization

The protests happening across the country are in response to systemic racism and unchecked police brutality. That numerous deaths at the hands of police occur based solely on suspicion due to skin color is simply unacceptable.

What’s more, look at how the police forces have reacted. Armed white people marching in the streets? No problem, they march. Unarmed black and other people of color marching in the streets? They get tear-gassed, shot by rubber bullets, beaten, and…