#sayhisname
I won't have kids
I'm very serious
Not until i can say to them
"I lived through a time when it was unhealthy to have your curly hair and brown skin,
When you could be killed over an assumption. Yes I know even if you had nothing to do with it.
I lived through a time when it didn't mean much to us to serve and protect.
But your generation can do better than us,
We caught and exposed via our phones and social media the power lustful and corrupt
But we only received this torch from those that walked up and down on this path before us.
I want you to do better and be better than us my child, so go out into the world and be proud of your heritage and who you are
Remember the struggles we went through, so they never happen again. "
Jul 7, 2016
Jul 7, 2016 at 9:06 PM UTC
it happened again
another life taken
****
i
am
so
tired
of
this
i thought
this is
the reality of being black
the least i could do
was bear witness to
that fateful moment
when two men thought
they had the right
to play God
to knock you over
and look down on you
as they pulled the trigger
the racism in their bullets
make wounds that
never heal
in hearts that are
still beating
and i'm so sorry that
the last thing you saw
were hateful eyes
i'm sitting here and
pleading insanity
on behalf of humanity
bullets in black bodies
from the hands of
ignorant and aggressive
white men
who ****** without
repercussion or remorse
the cycle repeats
as the definition states
bullets in black bodies
from the hands of
ignorant and aggressive
white men
who ****** without
repercussion or remorse
what is it going to take
to remedy this pain
please someone assure us
that this time
his life will
not be in vain
we have to change
and stop living in
America: the land of
the insane.
Jul 7, 2016
Jul 7, 2016 at 7:46 PM UTC
Land of the free
you seem to call it
But the freedom
only seems to fall
on one end of the spectrum
one side of the scale
And when the scale tries
so excruciatingly
to balance itself
When it comes crashing down
in an attempt to be heard,
to make a sound,
It is met with cries of outrage;
With a selfish victimization of,
“what about us?”
“don’t we matter too?”
but that’s not the point,
now is it?
The scale
isn’t screaming out any less
for the importance of
one side
by trying to give an inch of importance
to the disregarded other.
Black Lives Matter.
Jul 6, 2016
Jul 6, 2016 at 11:09 AM UTC