Thursday, April 14, 2016

Written response to Rebeca Rodriguez

The Impact that "Black Lives Matter" has on our Political Mind


       Having violence in our own communities by the police is sad I agree with you on everything. Sometimes we all seek justice in some sort of way but at the end the police and political parties care more about other issues than having justice for everyone, having black lives matter represents not only black but also anyone who has been thru police brutality. Many of these conflicts have been because there have been some deaths of young men who had been killed by the police. Having some cases like Trayvon Martin, David Joseph and many more unsolved cases, in Austin we came across the statue of Albert Sidney Johnston it was spray paint in red “Black Lives Matter.” No because we are certain color, they have the right to abuse their power. Having this problem in our society can be a racial analysis of American inequality; therefor most innocent people suffer with police brutality. For Example back in the day we had the “Black Panther Party” many people wanted to portray the philosophies of the Black Panther as violent while down playing African American victimization. As if you said on your article not only black matters everyone’s lives matter, we have Hispanic people who are stop by the police because they look immigrants and check their papers because if they were not legal; to deport them back.
        Where is the respect and our rights as humans, being a minority of Mexican decent in my experience my family has suffer from discrimination by the police, we live in a neighborhood where there’s diversity and our next door neighbor she is a white lady around her 60’s, we can’t have parties. Because she will call the police on us and interrogate us like we are the ones to blame, we understand we can be loud after 9 pm nobody likes to be bother at the time but for her will be enough reasons to call the police, and when she is the one making the noise we can’t complain.
The biggest incident we had was that my dad was working on the house she came out and screamed on the top of her lungs that she will call immigration to deport us we call the police this time because we could not make her be quite and we really did not want to respond to her in a bad attitude. One the police came they decided to interrogate us and tell us to not respond and to leave her alone while for her they didn’t tell her anything we call the police just once and we are the ones to blame. With this society is not about how we treat people, is about judging them for their color and assuming things they should not.
         The people who will always be above us will be the ones who are not a minority, which is unfair to be treated differently. By having, the political parties focused on topics like this one they will never pay attention because it is not for their interest only a few like trump with his absurd idea of making the great wall we encounter that if he is racist to one race, he will be racist to every race Trump encourages violence for everyone. Voting for him everything would be a complete disaster because not people are thinking negative but as a nation, we will move backwards instead of progressing forward.  “Black Lives Matter” into a hashtag and rallying cry that defines the nation’s racial politics.

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