Living While Black In America Today #LeaveBlackPeopleAlone

There is a trending hashtag on Social Media platforms today that simply says: "Leave Black People Alone". This is profound in that the truths behind this viral hashtag are actually rooted and grounded in historical facts, and modern day happenings. White America has a social behavior that is also reinforced with laws that do the exact same thing. The Justice Journal Blog™ breaks this phenomenon all the way down just for you our readers.

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Historically in government you will find that when Black people showed advancement white systems reacted. During The Reconstruction Era formerly enslaved people began to win elections, land, and began winning and holding Public Offices. Almost immediately white lawmakers created Black Codes, Literacy Test, Poll Taxes, and other forms of suppression to include violence (KKK), to block further Advancement. They could not #LeaveBlackPeopleAlone.

During the Civil Rights Movement great Black leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcom X. and Huey Newton, became Mainstream and began to collectively make a difference in the everyday lives of Black America. Though each one had a different method, the story was the same. Black people needed to be treated as a people, and not as possessions. Immediately White America to include the white run government began operations like the FBI's COINTELPRO, which targeted these Black led efforts infiltrating, monitoring, and disrupting each of these movements. Some of these actions led to the death of these leaders. They would not #LeaveBlackPeopleAlone

Even before this era we find that Black Americans are a resilient, resourceful people. In the

1920's they established Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Project which was a Black Economic Center for progress minus white dollars and infrastructure. White America became furious over this and white mobs bombed, and destroyed the entire community, including buildings and Black lives. All obliterated off the face of the world. Tulsa is not the only incident of this white rage. There are identical examples of this all across the United States of America. They refused to #LeaveBlackPeopleAlone.

The right to assemble is a basic freedom known as a human right, a political right, and a civil liberty, all covered in the Constitution of the United States. Even with these protections history has proven that when Black people protest white systems punish them. During the Civil Rights Movement, protesters on the Edmund Pettus Bridge were attacked with dogs and horses, severely beaten, jailed and in some cases even killed. It is important to note that this protest was legally planned, and announced, and it is another example that White America will not #LeaveBlackPeopleAlone.

This publication could go on and on with these types of examples of Black people in America not being left alone. Instead of that sad commentary, let us show

you a hard list of some of the "While Black" Scenarios, which are known by nearly all Black Americans, and ironically denied as truth by White America. Here we go:

• Shopping while Black and getting followed, questioned, or watched.

• Driving while Black and being pulled over for nothing.

• Walking in a neighborhood while Black and being treated like you don’t belong.

• Sitting in a park while Black and having someone call the police “to be safe.”

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  Entering your own home while Black and having a neighbor demand proof.

• Using a public pool while Black and being asked to show residency.

• Waiting for a friend in a lobby while Black and being accused of trespassing.

• Working a job while Black and having a white customer question your authority.

• Parenting your child while Black in public and having a stranger intervene.

• Talking loudly or laughing while Black and being labeled “aggressive.”

• Hosting a cookout while Black and having the police called over “noise.”

• Selling water or snacks while Black and being reported for “suspicious activity.”

• Borrowing equipment at school while Black and being accused of stealing.

• Asking a question in class while Black and being labeled disruptive.

• Jogging while Black and having someone follow you or call 911.

As you can see this troubling overtone touches nearly every facet of Black life in America, and is not decreasing in any intensity. Black America sees White America insert itself into its very culture as a sort of, want to be judge, even when nothing is happening. White America has turned many things that were for Black people against them. One of those is the phrase "Black Fatigue". This publications has this to say about that. It seems to TJJB that if any one is experiencing fatigue it is the Black community. White America has it's collective knee on the necks of Black America. Watching, and interfering in every thing that Black people do or say in this country. How long does anyone think that this overt behavior by White America can last before incidents of protection start becoming more and more visible. In this publications honest opinion, White America should indeed #LeaveBlackPeopleAlone.