The main event that stuck out to me was the bombing of the church. The bombing stood out because black people were just leading their everyday lives attending church as normal and were disrupted by ignorance and white supremacy. It was truly disheartening because an incident quite similar to this happened, except it wasn’t a bomb, but a gun.

To inflict this type of pain upon humans is monstrous. It is truly sad that they were literally just in the middle of Sunday service never intending that something like that would happen, but then it did. It resulted in the injury of 21 black children and killng four beautiful young girls who were probably no older than 16. Instead of the police providing protecting and investigating why the bombing happened, they ignored it and carried on with their lives. The killing didn’t stop and justice was never served. Two more boys, Virgil Lamar, 13 and Johnny Robinson, 16 were involved in racially motivated assaults. Virgil Lamar was shot down by a group of teenage boys who were in the Eagle Scouts and these boys had just attended a KKK meeting prior. Johnny Robinson, was gunned down by the police, unprovoked, but because he was a black boy they ruled his death as an accident.

In today’s society, however, incidents like these are common. A black childs death never makes the news and IF it does there is usually no context behind the murder. It is ruled as an accident or the white man, was simply just ‘protecting’ themselves. Recently there was a 15 year old boy, Jahiem McMillan, who was handcuffed to the ground and shot in the head by policemen. The murder did not reach the news and when the parents asked to see their child the police officer was adamant on keeping them from viewing him. The officer lied and pronounced that he was brain dead when he was actually dead. No matter how many years has passed the struggle to protect Black Lives has not been any easier. If anything it is more dangerous for black boys and men to roam the streets past a certain time without being looked at negatively or as if they are livestock. The killings never stopped and it really makes you wonder if anything has really changed. If we, as black people, will ever be on the same footing as white people