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Middle ground Surface area Black lives matter White matter No man’s land Grey matter All lives matter That’s the counter argument Ridiculous Spontaneous propaganda Systematic retaliation But let’s argue it When you look at me What do you see Honestly A black man But what am I Human in my simplest capacity Yet don’t treat me as such Yet don’t view me as such Yet don’t value me as such All races matter All others be sprinting and leaving us to be short put and javelin on the sidelines The corners of my mind can’t handle being marginalized Where your past experiences leave me ostracized I’ve never held a gun But let me be seen as a mugging assassin trained by neglect and blood exposed aggression that feeds off the spare change in your purse when you encounter me in the passage You think being called a racist is offensive Try deducing a sentence from a stranger’s body language as her eye movement and shrieking soiled palms suggest each limb to scream “Criminal!” Defamed disdained inhuman filth of the earth literally blackening darker and darker each day Black lives matter Because each life scatters when the black blood splatters When the legs of black women are forcibly departed As her dignity is degraded Her self-worth lynched in a fiery dismemberment As each article of clothing is discarded You can’t use our religion Turn gold white and claim credit like how Jesus turned water into wine And still take our body image It’s not fashion it’s ethnicity It’s not a chosen lifestyle It’s culture Then realize you can’t do it like we do And call it uncivilized and barbaric And anything before your story I mean history is oral based mythology Never mind that You’ve confused dark skinned societies that they have pockets too deep in their baggy jeans and a recessive nature in their biology But let’s speak truth Psychology states A bully ill-treats someone they desire to be like I know dudes who play golf that wanted to be like mike Actually invested in a kit and purchased a ball To find out their hands along with something downstairs being too small You know what they say Middle ground Surface area Black lives matter White matter No man’s land Grey matter
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Nov 20, 2019
Nov 20, 2019 at 4:56 PM UTC
Grey Matter.
Middle ground Surface area Black lives matter White matter No man’s land Grey matter All lives matter That’s the counter argument Ridiculous Spontaneous propaganda Systematic retaliation But let’s argue it When you look at me What do you see Honestly A black man But what am I Human in my simplest capacity Yet don’t treat me as such Yet don’t view me as such Yet don’t value me as such All races matter All others be sprinting and leaving us to be short put and javelin on the sidelines The corners of my mind can’t handle being marginalized Where your past experiences leave me ostracized I’ve never held a gun But let me be seen as a mugging assassin trained by neglect and blood exposed aggression that feeds off the spare change in your purse when you encounter me in the passage You think being called a racist is offensive Try deducing a sentence from a stranger’s body language as her eye movement and shrieking soiled palms suggest each limb to scream “Criminal!” Defamed disdained inhuman filth of the earth literally blackening darker and darker each day Black lives matter Because each life scatters when the black blood splatters When the legs of black women are forcibly departed As her dignity is degraded Her self-worth lynched in a fiery dismemberment As each article of clothing is discarded You can’t use our religion Turn gold white and claim credit like how Jesus turned water into wine And still take our body image It’s not fashion it’s ethnicity It’s not a chosen lifestyle It’s culture Then realize you can’t do it like we do And call it uncivilized and barbaric And anything before your story I mean history is oral based mythology Never mind that You’ve confused dark skinned societies that they have pockets too deep in their baggy jeans and a recessive nature in their biology But let’s speak truth Psychology states A bully ill-treats someone they desire to be like I know dudes who play golf that wanted to be like mike Actually invested in a kit and purchased a ball To find out their hands along with something downstairs being too small You know what they say Middle ground Surface area Black lives matter White matter No man’s land Grey matter
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22/M/Johannesburg,South Africa
Nov 20, 2019
Nov 20, 2019 at 4:56 PM UTC
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