I love you. Speak up.

I love you. Speak up. 

Covid-19 Lockdown D-83

Much like how I started writing again on the eve of the Covid-19 Lockdown, I am writing again on the eve of the lifting of the MCO or 

Covid-19 Lockdown when my fellow citizens are free to roam.

It has been a total of 83 days of stay home order or movement control order. And what a time it has been for me. I shall write about this in due course. For now, ironically we exit the Covid-19 pandemic and replace it with yet another pandemic. An even more urgent situation facing humankind. The endemic killing of Black people in the US and around the world. By black I mean the people who are non-white which include I and other minorities all over the world. For that, I am #Black.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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The world is completely flattened by the internet.

The multi channels of information flow is what enables us to know of things around the world.

Now almost everyone has access to or has heard of important news or news about events that concern us as a human race.

In return there now exist an opportunity for us to step up to that same channel/s & spread our message/support for the biggest problem the world is facing.
Yet we often fail to do so for fear of criticism. We worry too much about what the world thinks about telling the truth.

And in that fear of being criticised, we miss the chance of making that positive contribution of tipping the world slightly over to the positive side. Even if it's only for a while, it would have saved some lives. And I'm not just talking #blacklivesmatter  but #AllLivesMatter

Let's bring back our humanity.

A black man died under the knee of a white police officer.
If those words or the video did not move you then I will say this; some of us have lost our humanity.
And if you think that it has nothing to do with you then you are racist.

This affects all of us. Wherever you are.
The case of George Floyd is just the tip of the iceberg for the history of the black murder pandemic that started from the slave era. After hundreds of years, the addiction to murdering blacks still persists with the ultra-whites.

 

We must stand with the Blacks and condemn the act of racism. While racism exists everywhere, it is foolish for my fellow Malaysians & friends to think the #blacklivesmatter movement does not affect us. 

We have gotten so comfortable and embedded in ourselves that our chief concerns are our own selfish needs not caring about the injustice done to anyone else. Little do we realise that if we do not speak up, we will one day be victims of injustice and racism very soon.

Let us stand with #blacklivesmatter  #blacklivesmattermalaysia and say that we do not condone any form of killing because #alllivesmatter. We all belong to only one race. The human race. Humanity.

Now you and I, black and white and every colour and shade in between must take a knee and a vow in remembrance of George Floyd to not allow this to happen ever again wherever you stand. #BlackLivesMattters and #allivesmatter. 

Stay safe. Stay tuned. Literally.