Are We Going to Arrest Breonna Taylor’s Killers or Not?

Yet again, Black women are cast aside by everyone.

This one is mine. ARREST THEM ALREADY.

Note: I usually write black in lowercase because I no longer feel the need to tailor my language to an increasingly obsolete grammar guide to get my message across. But from here on out I will capitalize for solidarity’s sake.

The more we hear about Breonna Taylor’s murder, the more it doesn’t make sense. Granted, whenever the victim of a racist system is a Black woman, very little makes sense. How did Sandra Bland end up dead? Why did some gutless good ol’ boys decide to kill Johnnie Mae Chappell, a mother of ten walking home from the grocery store? Why was Laura Nelson raped and lynched after being thrown in prison on a bogus charge only to have photos of her corpse passed around as collectible postcards? And why did all of these murders go unpunished?

Why does the world hate us Black women? Do we not deserve to be loved, to be honored, to be listened to? Do we not deserve justice? Are we too loud, too fat, too dark, too opinionated, too proud, too visible to be treated as human? We die at the hands of police overshadowed by those who can’t keep calm because they have a Black son. We die at the hands of those who claim to love and cherish us. We die at the hands of those whom we share a bed. We die at the hands of…