Listen. Out of all the blogs I have written about this show….this one is hands down the hardest one I’ve written. I watched this episode again this morning and it still hit me all in the feels. Alllllllll in the feels. I’m right here before the show even starts! 
10. When art imitates life. Mike Brown. Trayvon Martin. Jordan Davis. The countless other names and faces gunned down in the street for no reason. I will say that I knew that Shonda would either hit or miss with this episode and if she hit, it would break the internet. It did. I’m happy that our stories are being told in our words. That meant so much to me.
9. Cyrus is a hater. What’s wrong with Mellie as president? Does he even have a reason for working this hard against her?
8. The Lawn Chair. If you don’t have fond memories of sitting in that lawn chair at a picnic while eating watermelon with salt off of newspaper I really don’t know what you have done with your life. Seriously.
7. Mercy Mercy Me. It’s no secret that Marvin Gaye’s music was the music of the movement. Inner City Blues still speaks to me. Clarence makes himself known and all he wants is answers. The sad part is that he knows that he will never get them unless he does something drastic. Even then, the answers came in a slow trickle.
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Sorry Liv but your Prada bag and high connections don’t translate well with people who are mourning the death of an unarmed teenager by a person who is supposed to protect him. You pride yourself on being neutral but you have to be on the side of what’s right.
5. The female Joe Biden. Joe Biden is everybody outspoken grandfather who lost all damns years ago and says exactly what he’s thinking. Enter Susan Ross…Joe’s “daughter”. Po thang just pops off and then has to apologize. However, she’s perfect for what Fitz and Mellie have in mind.
4. Just get him to 18. This scene took me OUT! We have always heard what the media wanted to portray to us but what was missing, in my opinion, was the human spin for those left behind. This man raised his child alone and went so far as to buy a university bumper sticker to put on his car so the police wouldn’t think he was a thug and he was still gunned down in the street. What has to be done to preserve black life? This man did everything they say you should to get his son to 18 and he didn’t make it. I’m just DONE at this point. 
OAN: Courtney B. Vance better get that Emmy. I felt this thang as if it were my own son and I pray everyday that it isn’t.
3. Living everyday in fear. Most of us are afraid of things and situations. But living ALL DAY EVERY DAY in fear??????? smh
2. You People. Ok so I know everybody sat up in their seat when they heard that phrase. Including the man in the scene 
Some of what this man said was true but he is definitely guilty of lumping everyone together. Not every black person disrespect police just like not every white person respects them. The perceived difference is that white people seem to get the benefit of the doubt when in those situations while young black men are shot immediately. The man who shot up the movie theater in Denver is alive and being treated for “mental illness” while Trayvon Martin is dead because skittles and tea looked threatening. Jordan Davis is dead because his music was loud. This is what is shown on the news. It’s what people see. Yet our feelings are shown as being nothing more than rantings and dismissed just as quickly. He had no right to question your authority? Sir you are not GOD! You put your pants on one leg at a time just like everyone else. If you feel that disrespected by people then you need to get another job. Let me get on off this soap box. 
1. And just like that……they’re gone. We don’t want a hand out or any of the other crap people want to say. We want what everyone else in this world wants: Truth. Justice. A fair shot. Those people got the answers they wanted and peacefully went along to their homes to try and resume their lives as much as they can.However, Clarence won’t ever be the same. He has justice but he will still be left with a big hole in his heart and life just like the parents of other black boys in recent years. I for one am tired of not being able to breathe. We want to breathe. We need to breathe.
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#alllivesmatter
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