"Why Black LIves Don't Matter?"

“Why Black Lives Don’t Matter?”

In this multi-media presentation Imam Shuaibe will address the recent injustices which have incensed the world of people of conscience across this nation.  He will address not just the judicial branches of the tree of INJUSTICE that black men and women are being lynched on but its ROOTS.

The potential cognitive dissonance that comes up when you read the title is deliberate. It forces you even on the subconscious level to try to make sense out of it for clarification.

It seems to affirm that “Black lives don’t matter”.  And it does.  In the sense that the Cultural System has shown that “they don’t matter”.  This address will explain “Why?”

It also asks the question, in an “ebonical” manner, kind of like the “slave asking his master” – “Massa, Why Black Lives Don’t Matter?”

It can also be read like an arrogant white supremacists, like Taney, the Chief Justice in “The Dred Scott Decision”, who is insulted by the very suggestion that “Black Lives Matter”.  His reply would be an exclamation not a question - “Why, Black lives don’t matter!”

In his decision he said,  “Blacks are regarded as beings of an inferior order, .. unfit to associate with the white race ..so far inferior that they have no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”