America Must Reckon with Police

The last four or five days have been unlike anything I’ve ever lived through. I can’t focus on schoolwork nor can I still really process what’s going through my mind. The waves of emotions, whether it be anger, frustration, or sadness, constantly recycle over and over again as I see what’s going on in Minneapolis, as well as all across the country.

What we are seeing is a reaction to hundreds of years of terror being wreaked in Black communities. What we are seeing is a reaction to the institution of police in America, which as for so long played with our right to live. What we are seeing is a reaction to the disproportionate treatment of Black lives in the age of Coronavirus. I understand all of this. However, many do not.

How are we supposed to tell people who have been under the fist of America for 400 years to “keep waiting” or “this isn’t the right way to go about things?” America was founded quite literally on the rebellion of the Boston Tea Party, destroying property as a form of protest against the tyranny of the British. America’s Civil War, our nation’s most violent conflict, was fought over…