Volume 15, Number 3, Winter 2020

All Lives Cannot Matter Until Black Lives Matter

AUTHOR:

  • Cortise Brown, B.A., Department of Communicative Disorders, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” These are wise words from the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In other words, racism should not be tolerated in any form or manner. You’ve heard the saying “one bad apple ruins the whole bunch before”, right? Well, that’s the case in this situation. If racism prevails in any place, it can be and will be detrimental to the places where racism does not exist. It can be compared to a virus, which spreads from person to person.

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