If All Lives Mattered – We Wouldn’t be Having this Discussion

If all Lives Mattered

If all Lives Mattered, there would be no need to have this discussion, there would be no need for a Black Lives Matter, there would be no need to continuously delve back into the segregated past and to keep reopening old wounds. The fact of the matter is this: "Black Lives do not Matter." In this racially charged atmosphere that we call America, Black Lives have never and 'will never' be equal to nor parallel to those who believe they own this earth. In truth, Black People only have 'Privileges' and no actual 'Rights' under the law. We can all pretend that everyone is treated fair and equally; but the actions of law enforcement, the Healthcare and pharmaceutical industry, the Prison Industrial Complex and such show us that we are not considered to even be human to most and just unwitting experiments to others.

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Law Enforcement

The treatment of Blacks under the current system of law is reprehensible to say the least. Black men are killed without a second thought; because those that enforce the law already have preconceived notions about 'All Black Men.' The notion is that: "They are all criminals, not deserving of equality, not deserving of Human Rights!" These prejudicial ideologies have widespread belief among law enforcement officials and not only them; but also in the public-at-large. More Black Men are incarcerated today than were held in slavery in 1850 and Nearly half of all people killed by police in 2015 were minorities, and more than a quarter of the victims were Black — despite Blacks only making up 13.2 percent of the nation’s population. There is no need to reiterate all the shameful deeds of law enforcement here, we are all well aware of the atrocities committed. Young men's lives being snuffed out by the police in America in particular has become the 'accepted norm' among a nation of sleeping zombies.

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Healthcare & Pharmacy

It has come to light in recent years that the so-called Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Industry has been targeting Blacks with dangerous vaccines and misdiagnosing them with cancer, schizophrenia, lupus, COPD which covers chronic bronchitis and emphysema and more. Most people are familiar with the Tuskeegee Experiment and how Black men were basically experimented upon under the guise of healthcare. Well, there were also experiments conducted in Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison which was the site of a controversial decades-long dermatological, pharmaceutical, and biochemical weapons research projects involving testing on inmates. In Detroit it has been surmised that the drinking water was intentionally poisoned and the residents subject to this effort of population control, were in fact the poor Blacks that could not afford to move. These instances are but a brief overview of the treatment that Blacks receive under the patronage of the American System of Control. If All Lives Mattered, this type of vicious action would have never been allowed to fester into the malignant cancer that erodes the very fabric of society!

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Prison Industrial Complex

Much can be said about the Prison Industrial Complex and it's impact on Black America, let it suffice to say: "Blacks are the targets for incarceration." Many still believe that their is equality in America and if you work hard you can achieve anything you want. This may be the prevailing theory; but the numbers do not support this hypothetical delusion. Black men are the most prone to be harassed or killed by law enforcement or inside of one of the many warehouses that we call prisons. Prison Reform or rehabilitation is nothing more than 'words' spoken by those who have made stealing people's lives a business. This business started back in the early 1970's when Nixon was in office and America’s so-called “war on drugs” began as little more than a ploy to enable Richard Nixon to go after his political enemies.

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people,” John Ehrlichman said in a 1994 interview. “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. “We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes… and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

After decades of promoting this so-called 'war on drugs' and destroying countless lives in the process, they allowed a new player on the scene in the form of For-Profit Prisons. The stocks of the two biggest private prison operators -- CoreCivic (formerly know as Corrections Corp. of America) and Geo Group -- have doubled since election day. CoreCivic is up 140% since Trump won in November; Geo Group has risen 98%. We know that Trump is a member of the 1% crew and his policies and attitude demonstrate that there will be more of the same. here is much more to be said on all these topics; but hopefully this has sparked your interest do research further into these ongoing matters.And as I've stated in the beginning of this article: "If All Lives Mattered - We Wouldn't be Having this Discussion."

By Mikal Al-Jalil the Webmaster of Breakinchainz.net and Breakinchainz Facebook & Twitter
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