Justice or Else March…Will America Ever Reach Full Equality? #TellUsHowYouReallyFeel

To mark the 20^th anniversary of the Million Man March, the Nation of Islam leader, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, organized a rally in Washington, D.C. to call for justice, equality, an end to unfair policing practices and to emphasize that Black Lives Matter.

Farrakhan called for unity among all black men, women and children and implored blacks to use their spending power wisely in order to affect real change in an increasingly unfair and cold America.

There were a lot of nice speeches, sentimental moments with family member of murder victims such as Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Sandra Bland and plenty of “I’m black and I’m proud rhetoric” but is all of this really going to change anything? Does it get to the real root of the problem?

After all, there was the Million Man March in 1995, the protests in Ferguson, Baltimore, L.A. and cities around the country. We can go back to the civil rights pioneers of the 1950’s and 1960’s and all the great work they started and the foundation they laid. But now, it’s 2015 and black people are still having to march and demand equal treatment. When does it end?

Will America ever really live up to its creed and be a land where “all men are created equal?” Or will it continue to prosper off of the heartlessness and callousness of inequality?

In his own words, Farrakhan said, “Moses was not an integrationist and neither are we. Let me be clear — America has no future for you or for me. She can’t make a future for herself, much less a future for us.”

#TellUsHowYouReallyFeel