Justice

Justice is a crazy thing. I would call it funny, but for me being black in the southeastern region of the United States. It's anything but. It's crazy, sad l, sometimes justice means Just us... Which is exactly what it sounds like.

I grew up in between States if you will. I traveled between South Carolina and Georgia for as far back as I can remember. My family was close, still is. One thing they never taught me was "how to act around white folk" but for some reason I learned that I had to act different around them. Now I don't give a fuck, but then it was tough trying not to be that "black girl who didn't know how to act" 

Ok, back to where I grew up. I grew up in Burke County, Georgia. One of the largest counties in the state of Georgia but very rural. My education started in elementary school. This tiny town named Sardis. Separated by train tracks, straight down the middle. Whites on one side, blacks on another. I used to wonder why the white ppl had grass at one point and the black side had broken down homes and dirt packed yards. No one ever questioned it, so naturally I stopped thinking about it. This is the order of things. No one talks about things, we just accept things as they are.

This is why I'm so upset about Trayvon Martin. The fact that he was a boy who was gunned down because he was black is bad enough, but the idea that a black boy can't go to the store and back home without being looked at as a problem is a big problem. I'll talk about it later though. Though I'm talking about the case and the details of it this post isn't about that. It's the fact that black America can't get it together long before the attitudes, and pessimism shows up. There is a simple blackout going on. They're saying black our you pics on social networks until a verdict is decided upon. I'm not discussing whether or not one should do this, because clearly its a free country. My issue is with the people who keep saying this isn't going to do anything. The negativity alone stops black America from doing anything. Changing a picture is little. But it shows support. People have to remember you have to take baby steps somewhere. If you as a black man or woman are discouraging someone from doing something so little and seemingly "insignificant" as blacking out a picture to show solidarity what do you think they're going to do when it's time for something big. Of course they're not going to participate because you discouraged them from the start. I hate that. Don't discourage them now, then ask them later to participate in something and have the nerve to get mad when they decide not to. And they will decide not to because it was you who made them feel like fools for trying to show support for a 17 year old boy who was gunned down for doing nothing but being black in America. The same thing you and I are doing right now. We just don't have any Zimmermans around to see our black showing.