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Black People are literally having the Police Called on them for just living their lives: A Rant

I am taking the time today, y'all.

White people, we need to talk.

What is up with your initial reaction to calling the cops on Black people? Seriously. You cannot just come and speak? Why is that? Do we scare you so badly that you cannot come speak to us should you have a concern?

Have you not been paying attention to the news in the last, I don't know, 50 years? Unarmed Black people are being slaughtered by untrained trigger happy officers left and right. Men, women, even children are being shot in the streets, in the park, in the back yards and fronts of their own homes

Do you know that ever time you call the police on Black people, you could be potentially sentencing us to death? Already this year, 30+ unarmed Black People have been fatal shot by police officers. And it's only April.

For whatever reason, calling the police on Black People, who are really doing nothing criminal, has become the thing to do. It didn't start or stop with the Starbucks incident here in Philly.

What about this incident at a Alabama Waffle House that left a young Black Woman topless and pinned to a floor by two white male officers? Did she deserve to be essentially stripped topless over this altercation over plastic utensils?
What about this past weekend, at the Grandview Golf Club of York, PA. where police were called on five African American women who were tresspassing? Doing harm to the course or other players? Decided this much grass deserves a full out bbq?
No. The police were called on the women because they were "playing golf too slowly."

That's right, because apparently that is a thing.

Meanwhile, a cursory investigation of the incident proves that the 5 women's speed of place was keeping in pace with he group that was ahead of them. So if we are really calling the police on slow playing, why wasn't the police called on that group?
Because it's a lie to cover up a deeper truth. Grandview, just like the former manager of the Spruce Street Starbucks here in Philly called the police for one reason and one reason only: because they simply did not want Black people where they were. 

At least Starbucks is making some attempt to rectify the problem of implicit bias. Grandview has offered a half ass apology that sounds more like justification in calling officers on five African Americans, who also just happen to be members of their golf club.

And these are just a few of the reasons why we will continue shout Black Lives Matter, and why we will continue to call out injustice and systems of oppression set up against People of Color since we are dragged here forcibly from our homeland.

When you are arrested for simply doing what white people go about their lives doing without even thinking about it, like go to the Waffle House, sit in Starbucks, play golf (even in clubs where we are members), when you are gunned down mercilessly for standing in your grandmother's back yard or taking a nap in your own car, there is a problem.

It really will only be fixed when White people authentically address their own biases of Black people.

Please tell us then, White People, where is it safe for us to Black in peace?
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