Being black in America
Last year of 2020 the phrase Black Lives Matter was a major topic throughout society. It made a bigger impact through social media when the brutal murder of George Floyd by a police officer. Floyd was kneeled on the neck and unfortunately died from the suffocation of lack of oxygen. This also brought up many previous deaths of black lives that were taken by either the police force or people with racially motivated violence against black people such as Breonna Taylor a woman who died in 2018 was shot in her home in her bed while she was asleep; Ahmaud Arbery a man who died in 2020 jogging through the neighborhood of near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia and encountered two white men Gregory and Travis McMichael who followed Arbery with two guns and fatally shot him. Lastly Elijah McClain a man who was died in 2019 after the police restrained him with a chokehold after a 911 call of someone “looking sketchy”. This political issue has made a dramatic change in society and has damaged the trust, fear, and hate in the criminal justice system. Now and days people of color fear live in fear that they might be the next person their family and friends will see next on the news. The Black Lives Matter movement has touched the hearts of many, where celebrities would donate money to families who lost their loved ones and people making songs that would speak on the topic. Such 13-year-old Keedron Bryant created the song “I Just Wanna Live”, an emotional expression of how hard it is for Black people in America to live without fear of brutality. Like many, other people have shown their support to express their emotions and fight against black violence. Sadly, we live in a world especially in the United States the land of the “free” and “equality” can be killed and or brutalized based on the color of one’s skin but not the actions they make.

