Time to Change the Status Quo

Time to Change the Status Quo

--- ABDUL WAKEEL ---

The current situation is agonizing for so many of us. There is outrage, shock, torment, dread, prejudice, treachery, bitterness, fatigue - and it's not only something new, it returns ages, to the extent that our nation has existed.

It's shocking.

We want to leave our hearts alone broken by how minorities, however particularly Black individuals, are treated in this country.

Leave our hearts alone broken by the dread they need to survive, the foul play they've endured, the manner in which they're seen by every other person, the manner in which they're put down, imprisoned, trampled, isolated, outsider, spit on, slandered, condemned, trashed, slurred, belittled, minimized, dismissed, and put into neediness … and afterward faulted for all of that. Leave our hearts alone broken by how long this has been permitted to continue, how depleted they should feel from every last bit of it.

We start with the shock, and afterward let this move us to at last make a move.

How about we end this at this point. Change is conceivable quicker than we normally accept, on the off chance that there's a will.

Gay marriage, decriminalization of cannabis, and a Black president have demonstrated that, just to begin with. Change is conceivable now, on the off chance that we conclude it needs to occur.

It needs to occur.

We've permitted this to continue for a really long time. Furthermore we should not be mixed up: we as a whole are chargeable in this.

We all. For imagining it's not genuine, for overlooking it, for permitting our own inclinations and bigotry to go unchecked, for not getting down on prejudice and mistreatment in our establishments and society, for not discussing it, for not walking on it, for not requesting that change happen now. We as a whole offer liability.

However, we should not get into blame shifting and fault. Blame ourselves, own our own part, and afterward we should make it right. Own our effect, and tidy up our wreck.

How about we change the norm. Not permit police ruthlessness, in the first place. Not permit prejudice or sexism in our foundations.

Not condemn being Black, or being a migrant. Not permit voices to be mistreated. Not permit isolation and expanses of minority neediness.

Not permit our political, financial, social, instructive frameworks to be frameworks of abuse, yet to become frameworks of positive change.

We have the ability to do that. We should guarantee it.