Why is a powerful word if you think about it. Why can answer so many questions. Why can tell your life’s story. Today, we have citizens of America outraged and distraught. We ask why?
George Floyd is just an example of how power becomes the greatest sin of all. For centuries, African American citizens of the United States have been oppressed. For lifetimes, these citizens have been underpaid, underfunded, disrespected, disproportionately imprisoned, disenfranchised, and killed all because they were born with more melanin than another.
We ask why?
Long ago a system was set in place by the most powerful men in this country and manipulated into making it forever law. Every administration has blood on their hands. All power is to blame.
We ask why?
Power is the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events. Power has been around as long as humans have been around. Power has oppressed the masses. It is simple, POWER, did not want all men to be created equal.
In order for a system to change, power has to shift. The movement of power is to move with great speed and force. That force must be non-violent yet strong at the same time.
We must move as a family beside George Floyd. We must move as a nation that is horrified with what we saw with our very own eyes.
They ask why?
Because, if George Floyd was my brother, I would never want this to happen to one more human being. I would have wanted my brother to have the same opportunity as everyone else. I would have wanted my brother to bask in the American dream. I would have wanted my brother to watch his children grow and have moments of love and life in his future. No one should have been able to take that away from him.
Sereniti Sparkles 