#BlackLivesMatter

Freedom and justice for all black lives

Black lives matter is a unique contribution beyond the killings of black people by police. It goes beyond the narrow nationalism that can be prevalent within black communities, which merely call on black people to love black, live black, and buy black, keeping straight CIS black men in the front of the movement while our sisters, queer and trans and disabled folk take up roles in the background or not at all. For more information on the matter click on this link Black_lives_matter

My skin, your skin, our skin regardless

Humanity should be our race, love should be our religion. Skin does not defy you, skin says nothing about you. I accept the colour of my skin and have no intentions on judging other people’s skin colour. Love has no discrimination, it does not hate, the issue of racism should not be ignored, instead it should be addressed, ignoring the issue will do no good but will do more harm and damage to the hearts of our people. Blacks are human, the skin colour does not say much what matters the most is what is inside the heart of the person. The killing and hatred should stop, I am confident and beautiful in my natural colour, I am not afraid nor ashamed of my colour, I embrace myself because it is what God has given me, and I have received my blessings from God. We should be more united instead of ganging up against each other, my sister is not the one I shared the womb with, but the one whom I meet in the street, my brothers are not defined by my race but are identified by the love they have for their sister from another mother. 

What kind of future are we willing to give to the next generation? The world would be at a better place if we loved each other, I do not condone what people in our past has created, black people being treated as slaves, forgetting that they are human too, we inhale the same oxygen, drink the same water even though we do not have the same thinking capability, but it is not our place to compare nor Judge. Why not change things while we still can? The number of people who have died in the past because of the same issue will never be at peace if the same issue continuously happens. We are better, we are one, and we will love and respect each other despite our skin color.