Proud Melanin:A Race Relation Story

Being black is more than having melanin in your skin, it comes with the experience.
The experience has its ups and downs. The ups are the natural style and confidence that you present yourself with. The downs are the struggles that we face in terms of racism because out of each minority, black folks get the worse end of the stick.
We have been oppressed all throughout history, but back in history the racism was obvious and no one tried to hide behind the law. Now any white person can shoot a black person, and the law and press will play in favor of the white people.
Take the cases of Rodney King, Trayvon Martin, Alton Sterling, and unfortunately the list goes on.
That rule where you had to be inside before the street lights come on is a rule that only black people know. If you think about it, that rule is to protect kids from the realities of the projects. If those lights come on, a whole new world is formed. Someone at the park down the street is supporting his family selling, a few more blocks down there is a gang initiation. Everyone has seen those sitcoms without any black people in them, they have no time restriction on when they can do things. They are allowed to have a blast at night time without any altercations, they can go for a run at night and come home without any tragedies. When it comes to black pop culture, any scene at night time you can expect something to go down. So, for many white people that have so much hate for the opposite race, they should be empathetic and consider all those things that most black people have to endure.
That brings the topic of “All Lives Matter”. What is all lives matter? All lives are not fighting for their rights are they? All lives aren’t experiencing racial condescendence since the transatlantic slave trade. While one race is dying and trying to fight for their right to live with equality the other race is feeling left out. Do we say “your lives don’t matter?” No we do not because we’d like to say we’ve been there and done that but we are still fighting that notion and wouldn’t wish it on anybody else.
We are saying our lives matter because it is open season on any unlucky person of color twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, thirty days out of the month, twelve months a year until we finally convince our fellow human beings that our skin color doesn’t make us elks with a bullseye on our stomachs.
History speaks for the present and the future, and the black lives matter movement stems from centuries of oppression of the black race. It is a fight to prevent history from repeating itself for black people.
With this skin also comes determination because since we are underrepresented in every field in the white collar job market that means our work ethic must be unmatched.
Everyday it is a fight, especially since landing a job is all about what is on paper and how you sound over the phone. On paper you may not have a traditional name with a voice that resonates with the majority of the applicant pool.
The fight is on from the day you are born until the end of time, but there is nothing wrong with that because it disproves our inferiority to the other races and shows that we will not weaken no matter what test we are put through, so wear your melanin with pride.