You can burn down the building, but you cannot break our body

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The #BlackLivesMatter movement was launched in response to the unjustified killing of Mike Brown, a young black man who was shot and killed by a policeman in Ferguson. The evidence and reasoning behind the case was all very suspicious and had the policeman getting away with it and being reprimanded by it because of all the backlash he was getting from the community when the Brown family had no justice for their son. Through this movement, another movement came along fighting them which resulted in the burning down of black churches. This case is actually tied with the case in the post below this one. It had to do with the Emanuel AME Church burning. Responses to that crime sprung more crimes and linked to at least 6 other churches with the same intent as the one with Emanuel AME Church. The sad fact of the matter is: this is not uncommon. Through history, these events have happened because these places of worship were used by black folk to try and fight the violent oppression among them and bring about equality between white and colored people. The act of burning down those churches was replicated to bring down black people’s hopes that what they wanted to achieve would be unachievable. However, through these acts, a strong message comes which is the title of this illustration: “You can burn down the building, but you cannot break our body.” A living testament that although acts of violence is being used against us, we need to fight back by showing that our will cannot be broken. Violence begets violence and as frustrating as it is, social problems need to be solved by not letting the other side win and what the other side wants is to frustrate and anger us so that we lose control.