Truth About Zane
  • Home
  • Updates
  • Petition
  • Book
  • JOIN THE DOTS
  • Contact us
  • Tributes
  • Hydrogen Cyanide
  • Carbon Monoxide
  • Q&A
  • Whistleblowers & The Law

Black lives matter, or do they?

17/6/2020

1 Comment

 
Picture
I hope that you are all staying safe and the lockdown has it's hidden joys.

3 years ago a family member said  “To be Black (or Brown) and poor in this world means that justice does not exist for you and your life means NOTHING. 

What's the point in calling for JUSTICE when the definition isn't the same for you? 
What's the point in being law-abiding when they will always see you as a threat? 
What's the point in telling someone to "be safe" when the streets, the institutions and this world are not. 
What's the point in saying it will get better when for hundreds of years, the injustice, inequality and racism remains the same albeit in different forms.” 

Never are her words more true than now. Be safe, injustice, these are words that mean different things to different people and when I look at what is happening in the world right now and I reflect on our ongoing battle for the TruthAboutZane, I can’t put my hand on my heart and say I don’t believe that if Zane was a white boy, if we were a white family and not from jewel heritage, that we didn’t have an African family name, we wouldn’t have been treated differently.

The outcome would certainly be the same, the lies, corruption, cover- up BUT the micro aggressive behaviours we experience, the profiling, the dehumanisation by the institutionally racist police and others in authority, I argue would have not existed. 
​
Zane was a beautiful and innocent little brown boy, did his life matter?


1 Comment
https://bestwritingsclues.com/reviews/6dollaressay-com-review/ link
28/7/2020 04:08:07 pm

I know that every lives matter, we are all human beings who are doing their best to have the best experience in this world. Life is filled with love and together we can all make it. We are always living in a world where everything seems hard and I know that we are filled with many judgments, but we should not forget the value of respect for this will help us to have a life that is precious and one of a kind. I know that it will give us some bothering feeling, but I am sure that it will be worth fighting for.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    Legal Aid Agency refuse
    3 times to grant family legal aid for inquest

    Picture
    MEDIA COVERAGE
    Picture
    Tweets by @TruthAboutZane

    TAZ

    Archives

    June 2025
    April 2025
    October 2024
    August 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    June 2023
    May 2023
    February 2023
    December 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    July 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    November 2021
    September 2021
    June 2021
    April 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    July 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    October 2016
    September 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014

    Categories

    All
    Hydrogen Cyanide
    TruthAboutZane
    Zane Gbangbola

    RSS Feed

Copyright © 2014 - 2025 Nicole Lawler. All Rights Reserved' on the site.