Black Lives Matter and have always mattered

  Black lives matter. Black. Lives. Matter. You'd probably heard this so many times. But now, please say it. Don't just say it, feel it. Feel every word and every sound on each word. Feel the lost, feel the pain and feel the anger. Don't stop there. Now listen to black culture. And don't just listen to it, but enjoy it. Now feel the beat of your heart. Feel it like steps. Steps to a better life for black people. Steps to be better people who dont judge based on skin color. 

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  To make you understand better what this means let's check a bit of history. These movement began in 2013 as the result of  Trayvon Martin murdered and the subsequent acquittal of George Zimmerman, his murder. Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza and Patrisse Cullors. This three women founded this campaign together as an answer of police killing black people.

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  During the last year this movement wasn't well known but after George Floyd was murder the whole world got to know it. Thanks to the hashtag #blacklivesmatter some new cases are known and people can be more informed.

  All over the world people is taking action about it, lots of celebrities are using their voices to help this movement to be listened. People started to talk about this again, which is really important.

Subsequently we all knew about the tragic murder of Breonna Taylor, who was at her house with his boyfriend when she was killed. The police was looking for someone and they went to the wrong apartment in a result of wrong information. 

Police brutality is not the only form of racism. Black people have to lead with it every day. When they go out to the street, when they are judged inside or outside a court, when people don't respect them, when white people feel superior, and even more. That "joke" you tell your friends about black people, that's not a joke, that's racism. That time when a little kid doesn't choose a black kid to be on the team just because that kid is black, that's not "something that children do", that's racism. That time when you judge a black person as a bad person, that's not "a simple judge" that's racism, and that makes You a bad person.

So then dont stop talking about this just because it's not trending anymore, black people future is in danger and we all together must do something about it.

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By: Pilar Rodriguez y Ayelén Pfeiffer