Poetic Justice
The Black Lives Matter movement sparked a racial debate amongst a community of nationalist, a year on are we all just as passionate? I for one followed the tragic story of George Floyd and was reduced to tears watching the footage of Ahmaud Arbery. It was these two pinnacle moments that drove me to investigate the deaths of innocuous black people at the hands of police brutality. It was often described in horrific incidents where victims screamed out "I can't breathe" as they struggled to breathe, pressure applied to the neck with enough force to stop oxygen or blood flowing to the brain. A measure commonly used by enforcement officers as a way of controlling casualties by making them feel afraid or intimidated. In a sense, there was a semblance of gleeful trepidation when I heard that the whole population was just as grappled by this issue and were openly discussing the problems of social diversion, whenever a person of colour would engage in colloquial exchanges cent...