Today, November 26, 2014, the USA is in a terrible position.
Unfortunately, today’s topic of conversation is racism; well not fully, but
along the lines of it. Just recently in this week’s news, a white officer was
recently let off without any charges for killing an unarmed black teenage male.
With the Zimmerman case ending in a way many people of the black community disagreed
on, this case is a little different because an actual police officer is
involved. This one case in particular has attracted the attention of people in
Pakistan, China, and even Korea had some input. In fact, Korea has recently
called our country “a laughingstock” because of the way people of color are handled
in the place that is supposed to be the land of the free. With the news of no
indictment coming out, citizens of all races (majority of these people being
black) have recently been protesting and looting worldwide, especially in
Missouri, the place where this incident happened. Though I was not around in
the late ‘60s, the images I am seeing on the news and on the web has got me
thinking to myself that we are repeating history. Tear gas is being thrown out
to protestors, building set on fire, it seems as if we are just in another
cycle of blacks not being treated equally. What does this mean for our future
in this country? The grand jury of Missouri, which consists of 12 people, is 9
out of 12 white people. Mind you that there are only nine votes needed to make
a decision, and with a white person looking at possible jail time, of course he
got the 9 votes needed to walk free. Is this fair? Are blacks still treated
unequally? If you ask me I say yes, and by the way things are looking, today’s
USA looks exactly as it did in the ‘60s; and at this rate with more and more
unfair trials involving the death of a young black person, we will only get
worse and soon there will be no more peace because there seems that there is no
justice.
