Humanity has the potent capability to enlighten and yet also to horrify. With the recent deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd - humanity has irrevocably driven my heart into a state of utter shock and despondency.
If I think about it closely, I become consumed by the relentless circulation of my inner thoughts and anger at such tragedies. As individuals we have the capacity for such good, yet why must some choose to use their positions of power for such evil?
The plight of people of colour, to have their rights protected as closely as their white counterparts, has been an issue that has existed for a time that has undoubtedly been too long. It astounds me that a society that can be brought together by some truly remarkable things can still remain divided on something so trivial as the varying pigments on a fellow human being's skin.
I struggle to fathom that this is what we have resulted in. No matter what you believe in, about the origin of mankind, surely it can be agreed that we were made to be more than what we have become.
The deaths of those three individuals, amongst many others, reflects the ever present disparity in the way society views the value of human life, even today. My heart harbours a certain ache when I think of the abundance of lives that have been lost at the hands of figures of such power. Figures that are supposed to play the role of our protectors. Today, those figures have let us down.
I don't want to let the names of the people who have lost their lives to become mere numbers. They deserve to be more and we owe them a degree of duty to ensure that the loss of their lives strays from being in vain.
There can be no pride in remaining complacent in the face of such miscarriages of justice. I don't think, as humans, we can afford to retain any degree of pride at our - supposed - advancing society, if we consistently tend to falter when called to dispel the heart breaking realities faced by individuals across the globe.
So what can we do? We can sign petitions, we can listen. We can educate and be educated. We can make noise. A lot of noise. In fact, I think that we have to obligation to make as much noise as we possibly can. So much noise, that silence on such matters no longer becomes tolerated. No longer becomes accepted or treated as a normality. So much noise that, if one really listens, in the echoes of our voices we will be able to hear the names of the victims that have fallen before us. You see, if we make enough noise, we have a chance of making sure that one day - some where down the line, things like this won't happen again.
In a society where individuals abuse their power for such evils, we must rise and use our equalling capacity to instil justice.
If I think about it closely, I become consumed by the relentless circulation of my inner thoughts and anger at such tragedies. As individuals we have the capacity for such good, yet why must some choose to use their positions of power for such evil?
The plight of people of colour, to have their rights protected as closely as their white counterparts, has been an issue that has existed for a time that has undoubtedly been too long. It astounds me that a society that can be brought together by some truly remarkable things can still remain divided on something so trivial as the varying pigments on a fellow human being's skin.
I struggle to fathom that this is what we have resulted in. No matter what you believe in, about the origin of mankind, surely it can be agreed that we were made to be more than what we have become.
The deaths of those three individuals, amongst many others, reflects the ever present disparity in the way society views the value of human life, even today. My heart harbours a certain ache when I think of the abundance of lives that have been lost at the hands of figures of such power. Figures that are supposed to play the role of our protectors. Today, those figures have let us down.
I don't want to let the names of the people who have lost their lives to become mere numbers. They deserve to be more and we owe them a degree of duty to ensure that the loss of their lives strays from being in vain.
There can be no pride in remaining complacent in the face of such miscarriages of justice. I don't think, as humans, we can afford to retain any degree of pride at our - supposed - advancing society, if we consistently tend to falter when called to dispel the heart breaking realities faced by individuals across the globe.
So what can we do? We can sign petitions, we can listen. We can educate and be educated. We can make noise. A lot of noise. In fact, I think that we have to obligation to make as much noise as we possibly can. So much noise, that silence on such matters no longer becomes tolerated. No longer becomes accepted or treated as a normality. So much noise that, if one really listens, in the echoes of our voices we will be able to hear the names of the victims that have fallen before us. You see, if we make enough noise, we have a chance of making sure that one day - some where down the line, things like this won't happen again.
In a society where individuals abuse their power for such evils, we must rise and use our equalling capacity to instil justice.
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