All around the world people have been awakened to the plight of a section of the populace. Blacks and people of color.
Several weeks of demonstrations, chanting and holding up of posters stating the obvious from Minneapolis to New York City; that black lives matter. Coincidentally, this match has seen people of different races coming together in solidarity to demand better treatment for blacks.
By creation, we are all humans birthed through the same gestational process. Yes, we are born the same irrespective of the colour of our skin.
It shouldn't matter whether I am born Black (African, African-American), Asian, Hispanic, American Indian, Native Hawaiian, or White.
Over the years America has promoted hierarchy in race with Whites at the top of the ladder looking down on others with feelings of superiority. This supremacy tendency is reflected in the dominance of whites over people of other races in every sphere of American society.
This tendency was exported into Africa as was seen in South Africa and it brought pain and hardship to blacks in South Africa. Segregation and apartheid were results of that ideology. Years after the dismantling of this oppressive regime, everyone whether black or white is seen and treated as equals.
While the pain and hardship faced by citizens of this African nation cannot be undone, the world learns albeit in the hard way that blacks where ever they find themselves will revolt and keep fighting back when unnecessarily oppressed.
America and other Western nations have come to terms with the fact that Black lives matter. How they intend to rewrite this narrative and give blacks and people of other race the importance sought for is not clear.
Top on the agenda of the black lives matter movement is the demand that blacks and people of color, be treated equally as white folks with same treatment from work place, policing, education, health care to politics.
America is home to multiculturalism and holds a leading role in world politics as such it bears the burden of paving this path for the rest of the world to follow.
Oppressive tendencies and discrimination as displayed in the death of George Floyd and many other blacks due to police brutality do not reflect equality and inclusion.
People have lived in America for varied reasons. And the circumstances of their stay or immigration to America should not be a justification for treating them or anyone for that matter, as lesser than they should be seen.
No group of people should be tagged as criminals more so because of the color of their skin.
I am but one Black person and this is my opinion. All Lives Matter.
It shouldn't matter where a person is from or the color of his skin. The lives of Asians, Native Hawaiian, American Indians, African-American, Whites, and Hispanics should count in America. Beyond that, the life of an Indian in India and that of an African in Africa should count and matter.
This is because when all lives matter, we can truly be one global village that is not divided across sentimental lines of racial superiority. When all lives matter, we can see each other as equals and seek out ways to grow together, bound in unism to reach greater heights.
When all lives matter, white folks all over the world will walk the streets knowing an Asian or Hispanic brother has got his back. Africans in Africa can speak out, reach out to, and grow using systems put in place by his Asian, Hispanic, or white brother.
Finance and payment services will open up to the African continent and other countries and allow the black person in Africa receive payment for services rendered more easily instead of coming up with labels and restrictions that ascribe 'send payment only' status to people who live in such places.
No more would research which seek to develop destructive weapons whether chemical, nuclear, or biological be encouraged because all lives matter.
As America and the rest of the world makes the necessary adjustments in the wake of black lives matter, she must now also embrace the bigger picture that All Lives Matter.
If this is done, equity, equality, and respect for one another, will result in unprecedented growth and create an environment where white folks no longer feel they have to keep defending their wealth as opportunity for growth will truly be available to all.
This will stop the need to continuously protest against the excesses of white supremacists as no one race is more superior to the other. The feelings of being selected for attack by people of other races will be destroyed.
The contributions to the growth of the American economy by white folk can't be denied, but as others argue, at an whose expense?
Every person of relevance in corporate America that is not white has had to scratch, scrub, struggle and push themselves to relevance, without the advantages like stress free education, financial support, clean and safe environment and the likes which so many white folks take for granted.
America can take the lead and harness the present momentum to ensure the safety, continuity sanctity and peaceful existence of all lives, for not only do black lives matter, all lives matter.
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