For the longest amount of time, as long as we can remember, racism has always been a problem, especially in America. I’m all for fighting for equal rights among all races but the situation in Ferguson, Missouri really exposed how ridiculous some people can be.

A black boy, shot and killed by a white cop for no apparent reason, set the black community on fire, causing protests, angry mobs, sit-ins, and anything you can think of to rally against racism in law enforcement and eventually racism in the country.

In the uproar of it all, it also became the perfect gateway for all the fake “black activists” to draw up their signs and ready themselves for angry interviews with news stations. They will, while it being televised, put up their hands in fake surrender and act up sadness with #Don’tShoot on their t-shirts. It’s sad that this issue will only last a few months before everyone forgets about it. The seasonal protesters aren’t too bad in drawing the government’s attention to these heinous crimes but, I can tell you with confidence, they will not be taken seriously.

Why? Well coming from myself, a fellow African American, I am constantly annoyed by this because we keep trying to fix everyone else but ourselves. We project ourselves as victims as soon as situations like Trayvon or Mike come about because they were killed by white people; a once common situation back in the Jim Crow era. We remember the Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X era for the fights for civil rights and use that motivation to victimize ourselves to make people sensitize towards the black race when there is black on black violence everyday. I know because I’ve lived this.

Young as I was in middle school, if I got into a fight with another black person, it’s nothing but entertainment, but if I fight a white person it makes the school news for the rest of the year. Black on white violence sells. It speaks to forbidden topics of the nation’s history that trails far back to the 17th century. It’s uncharted territory that can only work in advantage now for the blacks, and disadvantage towards the whites, never vice versa.

Instead of letting it go and moving on, African Americans use any outlet they can to play the race card so we can keep it alive and acknowledged for the next time we need to use it. Instead of it being a ‘Nonviolence’ thing it’s become a ‘race’ thing. Ferguson isn’t about the unnecessary violence and search for justice, as it should be. Instead it is about white-black violence and how law enforcement is racist. Race will make it worth fighting for or not.

Race still means everything to us after all these years.