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#racialprofiling
I Can't Breathe Suffocating In a country That could give A good God **** About me. Drowning in a society That doesn't see the signs. That doesn't believe That the darker brother Has the right to justice. That simply condones The mistreatment Of an entire group of Human beings. I tried to walk away. I tried to surrender. It didn't matter Because now I really can't breathe.
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Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014 at 7:07 AM UTC
I Can't Breathe
They fear for their children, Their things when our black men come near. But do they forget that it was the pale faces who were the cruel ones? They shipped and trapped our brown for sugar, molasses... For things. They inspected Destructed Degraded Detained Stripped naked our black men for money. They stole much more than our black men today. Beat, broke, and chained our black men Only to incriminate the black body Only to create fear of skin that has been kissed by something not man made. So forgive me if I say **** you" to the police in their attempts at racial profiling rationalizations. Have you no education? Have you no intellect? Have you forgotten OUR history? You cannot cancel violence by enacting violence. You cannot stop a cycle that you have began if you cannot even look at yourself . LOOK AT YOURSELF. It must be hard being so **** stupid. Being so detached And having the good graces to ignore and not to teach OUR history. The black body isn't what you should lock your doors from at night. Are you scared you wont be able to see it? Are you? It is the ignorance of our society of the simple fact That what starts here Ends here. And we are doomed to continue This cycle of shedding the blood of each other If you refuse to educate on where the violence                                                         the cruelty                                                         the ownership                                                         the belittling                                                         of the human body began.
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May 25, 2014
May 25, 2014 at 1:44 PM UTC
The Black Body in America
They fear for their children, Their things when our black men come near. But do they forget that it was the pale faces who were the cruel ones? They shipped and trapped our brown for sugar, molasses... For things. They inspected Destructed Degraded Detained Stripped naked our black men for money. They stole much more than our black men today. Beat, broke, and chained our black men Only to incriminate the black body Only to create fear of skin that has been kissed by something not man made. So forgive me if I say **** you" to the police in their attempts at racial profiling rationalizations. Have you no education? Have you no intellect? Have you forgotten OUR history? You cannot cancel violence by enacting violence. You cannot stop a cycle that you have began if you cannot even look at yourself . LOOK AT YOURSELF. It must be hard being so **** stupid. Being so detached And having the good graces to ignore and not to teach OUR history. The black body isn't what you should lock your doors from at night. Are you scared you wont be able to see it? Are you? It is the ignorance of our society of the simple fact That what starts here Ends here. And we are doomed to continue This cycle of shedding the blood of each other If you refuse to educate on where the violence                                                         the cruelty                                                         the ownership                                                         the belittling                                                         of the human body began.
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