We must take care of ourselves and each other if we wish to continue functioning in a meaningful way.
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Updated 5 years ago,August 6, 2020
Youre in the hospital.
Your heart is failing.
Clay Banks
The doctor just gives you an IV to keep you hydrated.
It needs special attention right now so it can heal!
The doctor considers your words for a few seconds, nodding his head slowly.
All organs matter, he repeats without emotion.
He then turns his back to you and walks out of the room.
If the heart fails, the body dies, taking the rest of the organs with it.
You dont want to die.
What the hell is wrong with your doctor?
Why doesnt he care?
We, as humanity, are the body lying on the bed in that hospital room.
The Black community is the heart that is screaming for its right to a pulse.
Every other organ in the body represents everyone else.
We all matter, but we are not the ones in critical condition right now.
But we will be if the heart isnt taken care of.
If one organ is neglected, we are all neglected.
If one group of people is targeted and unsafe, we are all unsafe.
Violate the rights of one and all are threatened.
Dont you get it?
I keep seeing metaphors trying to explain theBlack Lives Mattermovement to people who cannot seem to grasp it.
However, many of these metaphors keep taking the humanity out of the situation.
Another similar example describes Black Lives as the burning Amazon Rainforest.
We are all connected.
We are all an essential part of one collective body.
We must take care of ourselves and each other if we wish to continue functioning in a meaningful way.
Black lives need to be valued and protected.
The heart needs to beat.
Without a pulse, we are nothing.
