Dear Editor,

Based on what I am seeing being posted on social media by some of my fellow Jamaicans as it relates to the murders of the cops by Micah Johnson, do black lives only matter in the US?

It is appalling to me to see so many of us justifying what this man did in the name of an eye for an eye, yet remain silent when our fellow Jamaicans are being gunned down like dogs daily by their own black Jamaicans.

Do black lives matter only when white cops shoot black men in the US, or should they matter even when we are shot down like dogs by our very own?

I have yet to see the outrage from many people who are usually on their platforms of righteous indignation; many of you same Jamaicans who hug up a government that has yet to even come out and address the people of Jamaica on the high incidence of murder and mayhem that has taken over the country

Would their voices be heard if the Jamaicans who are being gunned down daily were gunned down under the American flag?

Where are your voices crying for justice for the schoolgirl that was shot by a Jamaican police officer?

Where is the outrage for the young men like Mario Deane, who have been killed while in the custody of the police?

Where is the outrage for the pregnant mother who was shot in the streets by a Jamaican police officer, simply because she dared to utter a few bad words?

Do we only speak and ask for justice when the incidents are on foreign soil? Or do we dare to address injustice everywhere?

’Nuff said!

Michelle Bradshaw

phillipsmichelle57@yahoo.com