Black Lives Matter

The entire country is in a moment, and that moment is with the judicial system. With the growing movement and concerns in what is called Black Lives Matter, yet the major concern with the movement is the single agenda. People want to know what do they, stand for or what the end agenda is. I am not a figure head in the movement, and who knows if these words will come across their path. The movement was started because of Trayvon Martin being murdered by George Zimmerman.

Since, society wants our people to stand behind something; my suggestion to the leaders of this movement: is to work on the repeal of all laws that evoke a calling for justifiable murder. I am a black male, and I have serious issues with Stand Your Ground. Currently 32 states have laws on the books that evoke some sort of Stand Your Ground: they are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, Iowa, Virginia, and Washington.

So more than half the country have laws on the books that allow this: stand-your-ground law is a law that authorizes a person to protect and defend one's own life and limb against threat or perceived threat. This law states that an individual has no duty to retreat from any place he/she has a lawful right to be and may use any level of force, including lethal, if he/she reasonably believes he/she faces an imminent and immediate threat of serious bodily harm or death; this is as opposed to duty to retreat laws. 

Black Lives Matter, but the most important thing to make sure we as a people know that All Lives Matter, then removing shot to kill from our law books, is the best tool for bringing Trayvon Martin the justice that he deserves. Without Stand Your Ground, and street fight won’t end in the use of deadly force, while the living person is saying he feared for his life: when he was the person who brought the weapon to the incident. If All Lives Matter, then you can’t be in fear of your life when you are the only person with a deadly weapon.