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Black Lives Matter

by @islandlove

Put your hand's up, i shake in fear I plead and cried but they don't really care. Look at me, look at my skin color is this the reason you want to shoot me? Africans, mexicans, hispanics, is race all that you see? Humiliating and torturing families how can you say you're protecting us? I cannot even walk to the shop without my mother putting up a fuss cous she's afraid i may not come back. To see me laying down in blood while you still try to put my hand in cuffs as you yell to my mom "miss go back" How is shooting someone that's not resisting arrest is looking out for the safety of others As we yell "stop i didn't do anything" yet our bodies end up in bags to our mothers. Look at me, look at us what did we do to deserve such cruelty Your skin color does not justify superiority As we are strip naked and I'm not talking about nudity, strip naked of justice for our people. Then you wonder why we riot black lives matter because the system is the problem when it's suppose to be part of the solution But they settle with "it was an accident " conclusion When? When will it stop ? How could you walk around with a badge shooting unjustly and call yourself a cop? The people are afraid but the cops doesn't care because at the end of the day, they're still getting paid. When is change going to be made? -dpk
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