So, What Changed, America?

The words – “I can’t breathe” – are now the new force that will change America forever.

Brutality is destroying black and minorities’ lives, and the New America is suffocating the most basic right for people to live a dignified life.

For so many people, America has been the emblem that symbolizes justice and respect for human life no matter who people are, what they look like, or where they come from. We have always wholeheartedly believed in a “JUST” America and we continue to believe in that despite the many challenges America faces.

However, the cruelty we have witnessed lately in Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Tacoma in Washington State, with no regards whatsoever to human life, seems to reveal the face of an America that we never thought would come back one day to revive memories of a shameful and unforgettable history of racism.

What happened to George Floyd, Manual Ellis, and Rayshard Brooks, and others is not what America stands for. We have come a long way from judging people based on their skin color or their ethnic background because America finally realized that who people are, or what they look like is not by choice. If anything, this is a country where people for generations came to seek refuge in the justice, equality, and fairness America is known for.

So, what changed, America?

“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.”– Theodore Roosevelt

This is the America that has always had a special place in peoples’ hearts and minds, but considering the recent tragic events that drove people out in masses demanding change is painting a different picture of this great land and what it represents for every American. The racial divide that is threatening the nation’s well-being is a wake-up call for America to reevaluate its racial stand. America is already going through a lot, a pandemic that has turned peoples’ lives upside, violent protests that have wrecked businesses and peoples’ livelihood, and an economic hardship that has left 40 million Americans unemployed. America cannot endure more somber times.

It is time for America to come to term with the reality that all people are created equal regardless of who they are, it is time for America to understand that the color of one’s skin does not make that person any less valuable than another person, it is time for America to stop pushing people to a point of no return.