Race Relation in America from the Youth's Perspective

Race relation and the world is changing before our eyes, and the impact it is having on today's youth is instrumental.  With the public lynching of George Floyd taking place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the youth of today are again able to see from a vivid standpoint the graphic imagery of police brutality, and racial inequality that still exists in America.

 What is now taking place in America is certainly not new, an action that is rooted in this nation's history but must change.  What is happening now is that it is being filmed at every instance, and exposed on social media, which is striking serious nerves amongst our youth, and awakening their consciousness to the evil, and cruelty that exists in this nation like never before.

Children across America can watch on Tik Tok, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, the lynching, and execution of a black man over, and over again.  Many of these young people, non-black love the African America culture, and have made a conscious effort to not be racist, and bigots, due to their love, and benevolence for black people, and are now taking to the streets to protest in the streets of America, from city to city, demanding the end to injustice and racial inequality.

Talking to my fourteen-year-old daughter the other day after watching the film Rosewood, she was described how she was disgusted and saddened how African Americans were treated back in the day.  In the film, an African American man and community were lied on for raping and abusing a White woman.  Her accusation of one man led to the extermination of an entire black community that was thriving in Rosewood, Florida.  Blacks were lynched, burnt, castrated, and all their businesses and homes were burned to the ground, all because of a lie created by a white woman to save her self, due to an affair she was having with another white man in which he became abusive to her beating her.

 The woman was abused by her white boyfriend, and she did not want her husband to dismiss her, therefore she made up a lie that a black man assaulted, and abused her.  The entire town knew this woman was promiscuous but yet, used her lie as a justification to conduct the evil act of killing an entire town of black people.  The evil of their implicit bias had always existed but her lie gave them an excuse to portray the evil of their hearts, souls, and mind.

Fast forward decades ahead, years after Jim Crow laws, and segregation, in 2020 we still see the lynching, and extermination of black people due to police brutality, and racism in America.  My daughter Lizzy describes what happened to George Floyd as evil, horrible, and just wrong.  She stated to me, dad he was crying, and telling them he couldn't breathe, and they kept killing him.

In our benevolencerenaissance video, episode one, she gives an analogy of how when a neighbor house is on fire everyone should, and normally do come out to help, and doesn't say what about my house too. She stated, well, black people in America house is on fire, and if your house is not on fire as well, you don't scream and tell the fire department what about my house too.

 Lizzy stated, well America, we are crying out to you, we are dying, and on fire, this is why we are screaming, and protesting in the streets BLACK LIVES MATTER.  BLACK LIVES ARE ON FIRE AND WE NEED EVERYONE TO HELP US PUT IT OUT SHE STATED, HELP US STOP THE RACISM, AND KILLING OF OUR PEOPLE IN AMERICA.  Attending her first protest in Katy Texas, yesterday she called the diversity in crowd impeccable to see, due to the number of people that are protesting against, evil, hatred, and bigotry in America.

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