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Jill Scott Says She Is Leaving America
And I don’t blame her
Actually, the article says she is considering it.
As a black mother, she has to because, of, well…
You haven’t been living under a rock. You know very well why she has to consider leaving America. She has a black son.
Need I say more?
Now, I mentioned in a previous article that these kinds of articles I loathe to write because they are emotionally taxing. Everyone experiences plight, but I will not All Lives Matter Jill Scott’s decision. Black lives are definitely more targeted than other lives.
In Travel+ Noire, Jill Scott says,
“Just to know that he will be on the road, just to know that he will be away from people that love him in a world that will decide whether he’s guilty of something because he’s brown. That’s terrifying. It makes me consider leaving this place often.”
I’m not a mother, so I cannot identify with that kind of pain. What I can identify with is her understanding of the system we live in.
Even though my unpopular opinion is that not all blacks who are killed are innocent — I believe most blacks that have been killed by officers, were innocent.
