Systemic Repression

The Golden globes last night fired up more discussion on the topic of systemic repression. Thank goodness! I am in love with this era and how movements to make people truly equal are happening.

However, the opposite movements get brought up as well. Those that feel left out.

Well, this fight is about systemic repression, much like the last talked about one was. Both of these fights need to be on going until further change is made.

Yes, I'm talking about the #MeToo and the #Blacklivesmatter movements.

In the Black lives matter movement, people wanted to bring up that all lives matter, or that white lives and cop lives mattered too. Well of course that's true! However, those lives have always mattered! The point is that the system has repressed a certain skin color to the point that they seem like less, and their lives seem to add up as less. The system has made it to where a skin color scares you. Therefore, they get shot more because when they get pulled over or searched, no matter how innocent or guilty they are, the cop is more scared and threatened just because of their skin tone. The more you fight that "they do it to themselves" the more you feed into this systemic oppression. Do you think that when you argue that white people get killed by black cops or other white cops that that helps the argument? There are good and bad white people. There are good and bad black people. There are good and bad in every race and culture. However, the system sets certain ones up for failure more often. So it goes had in hand with cops killing them wrongfully. To fix the whole system, we need to start with the weakest link, which is realizing that black lives matter. Once that link is fixed, we can move onto the other races, yes even eventually getting to the whites and cops. Then truly all lives will matter. Until then, recognize what the system has done and stand with #Blacklivesmatter.

Now this systemic repression has also been against women. Women are not represented in government, upper management, and in many fields of jobs. Hand in hand with that is the sexual harassment of women in the workplace. Women have been repressed by the system to only be good if they are pretty objects. We are made to stay at home, or only be in certain professions, and we are weak and lesser than men. So of course powerful men use that and will harass and sexually assault them. Women have been made by the system to keep quiet. We are blamed if we speak up. We are impure. We are picked apart instead of looking at the accused. The one who sexually assaulted is to blame. So when others start to speak up that men can be victims too. Yes, this is true. However, men are not systemically repressed, so right now, this is not about you. The weakest link is women. Go research the numbers. It is staggering. Way too many women are affected. So once we get that fixed, of course we will help out the men that obviously matter too. But we can't fix the whole system at once, so until women aren't repressed by the system anymore, we need to side with the #MeToo movement. Until there is no longer a global bias towards men, we need to side with #Timesup.

Can we keep the spotlight on the ugly truths for a bit? Let the squeaky wheel get oiled first? Stop pointing out that everyone matters when there are way too many instances where there are people being made to feel like less of a person.

I support #Blacklivesmatter
I support #Metoo
I support #Timesup

Thank you Golden Globes for sparking another discussion.

Keep talking.
Until talk turns into change.