Wilson Castro

“It’s not over until…” what happens?

For days the streets have been filled with protests demanding justice. Social media is being used as a resource of spreading information both on what is going on with the protests as well as ways of supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. All of us are supporting and donating to causes such as Reclaim the Block that demands cut funding for the police or the Minnesota Freedom Fund which is bailing out protestors who got arrested and anything in between. My social media timeline has also been filled with a vocal minority who lacks empathy and wishes for everything to go back to an oppressive normal state. To them I will say that it’s not over until change happens. What those people are failing to understand is that what is being shown to us these last fews days have been going on for years as Black people have protested peacefully. The oppression towards Black people goes back even further than that. So if it makes the people on my timeline uncomfortable to see these realities I urge them to consider aiding the cause as with all of us helping, things can change and we can get back to not a normal but a new situation in which there is equality and proper punishment for injustice as well as a society more open to hearing the voices of those previously shut out.