Whose life really matters

It had been a couple of quiet months in the world until the July where multiple shootings have occurred. From protests, to violence, to the deaths of many.

On the night of July 5th, word spread throughout the news and social media of the Alton Sterling shooting. Since then, all hell has broken loose. Sterling was selling CDs Tuesday night at a Food Mart in Baton, Rouge, when a white police officer approached him.

Video of the cop pinning Sterling to the floor and telling him not to move spread like wildfire through social media. Sterling followed orders but still the cop shot him, not once, but enough times to kill him. Social media buzzed with #PrayForAlton, until just the next day another black man was shot in his car.

The video spread of Diamond Reynolds recording the incident of her boyfriend dying right next to her after a cop shot him multiple times.

Since then hashtags #BlackLivesMatter, #BlueLivesMatter, #WhiteLivesMatter, and #AllLivesMatter have been spreading all through social media.

Shockingly tables turned when five white cops were killed the night of July 7th, and many were quick to point fingers at black people. Where’s the humanity in that? This generation is so caught up in protecting ourselves that we forget to protect each other. One may be black and one may be white but we all bleed the same color so why kill because of what you see on the outside? Everyone has been praying for all the lives that have been lost, but still there are those who are fighting with each other because of different beliefs.

Whether it’s black lives, blue lives, or white lives, all lives do matter, but those that should be focused on are the ones affected by the violence that has happened this past week. Whether you are black or white using violence is not okay and those cops should pay the price for killing those black men when the victims followed the right procedures.

We should all die in peace, not in protest. #PrayForTheWorld