Being a Black female in today’s society is far from easy. Every day I wake up, I feel less and less wanted by society. I look at the newstand and see how they’ve been plastering the faces of Parkland shooting victims all over the magazines and newspapers. They were invited on the Ellen show and one of them gave a whole speech in Washington D.C., our country’s capital. And the Florida shooting suspect? He wasn’t shot once. Not one time did they dare to pull the trigger on a mentally unstable male that walked into a high school and killed seventeen people. A Caucasian young man in Austin was bombing people’s homes. He wasn’t shot or killed. 

Meanwhile, brown-skinned Patrick Dorismond possessed no drugs and was waiting for a taxi with a friend when an undercover officer shot him once in the chest from close range. 

Amadou Diallo, an African immigrant, holding a wallet, was shot forty-one times by four police officers in the doorway of his Bronx apartment building. 

Michael Brown, an African American brother, was unarmed; he was shot and killed by a police officer. 

Philando Castile, a Black man, had a permit for his gun and the officer shot him seven times. 

Tamir Rice, a Black youth, was shot twice by an officer at close range as he held a toy gun. 

John Crawford the Third, another Black man, simply handled a toy in the toy aisle and was shot twice by an officer in quick succession. 

Alton Sterling was pinned to the ground and shot several times at close range. 

Freddie Gray was just riding his bike when officers loaded him into the back of a police van on his stomach and head first ignoring his pleas for medical attention.  

While Miriam Carey’s baby was in the car, she was shot five times and killed in front of her one-year-old daughter. I’m not saying that what happened to the Parkland shooting victims wasn’t wrong, but where is our justice? Where is the justice for the Black community? All of these tragic, wrongful killings have happened to us and still, we have no closure. They didn’t give us the same media coverage; they made us seem like wild animals trying to be violent during peaceful protests and marches. But I guess being born Black is a crime all in itself, ain’t it? They say all lives matter, but I guess that doesn't include us. It's been said once, but I’ll say it again: America better be grateful that the Black community only wants equality and not revenge.