Still Upon Us

At The Center for Civil and Human Rights the thing that stood out to me the most was the quote, "We didn't want anyone to criticize us for our appearance because our message was controversial enough". Mostly because it hadn't occurred to me that the way that they were dressed was such a big part of the Greensboro sit in movement. It's never usually talked about but I'm pretty sure if they dressed "inappropriately" that that would have been the talk of the season. It just amazes me that black people are still subjected to racial profiling because of the way that they look, black men especially are shot because they are perceived to be fearful by their counter parts... It's ridiculous. Another shocking part of the museum was the remembrance of the four black girls killed in the Baptist church. On the plait describing what happened in this incident it had said that the last two bombers from the church hadn't been executed until 2001 and 2002. Along with the exhibit dedicated towards the current cruel dictators and it made me realize that we talked about civil injustices as a past event until the police brutality cases but even before that, and now these people that have un doubtfully killed people are still upon us and you don't hear much about them.

Chinika Derrick, The Park School of Baltimore