What Will it Take?

I almost didn't choose this article from Off The Kuff to write about. I saw a black face, and immediately knew what it was about. How sad is that? 

I decided that yes, it isn't fun to keep reading the same story in the news. It's heartbreaking.But it is even more excruciating for those who are in fear of these hate crimes happening to them. This subject is incredibly relevant right now, and this story is a tragedy. 

On July 17th, a woman named Sandra Bland was allegedly pulled out of her car window and thrown to the ground, where she was then arrested for not using her turn signal when switching lanes. Even more ironically, this all went down outside of a church. She later died of asphyxiation in her jail cell. Despite the controversy over her death being a suicide or not, I don't think her death is the point Sandra would make with this post. 

I have heard some people argue that black people are being shot just as much as white people or any other race. For some reason, the idea that a Prairie View A&M graduate on her way to start her new university job deserved to be aggressively handled, and moreover arrested for not using a signal to change lanes, just doesn't click in my mind. In fact, I am experiencing the same mental process as with the deaths in other recent news; the reasoning behind it is not nearly reason enough. It is inexcusable for our supposed "protectors" to be walk around with kill toys that they think they can fire whenever they feel like it. This article should be read because even while she was being shoved into a police car, Sandra Bland shouted to a bystander filming, "Thank you for recording! Thank you!"