So tired of seeing this done to my people.
Country was built on our backs and we continue to be treated as less than human hundreds of years later.
In a time filled with cultural appropriation of black energy, this is why it hurts.
You can't take our talents/style/culture and let us be senselessly killed every day.
I remember being a young king in catholic school and being called a thug and a gang member for having cornrows. Never mind I was a top student in my class that had no problems ever.
Yet we don't call police thugs and recognize that they are the biggest gang in America.
From a young age as a black man, you have no choice but to be immediately aware that your greatness is a threat. You have no choice but to recognize that there is a good chance you can lose your life strictly because of your blackness.
Then on the other side of it, you have to see the culture that we use to build ourselves up bastardized and taken from us.
Black people as a whole have PTSD in our DNA after years of this ideology and oppression being pushed on us, enough is enough.
I just know I don't want my son or daughter growing up in a world where they are looked at as a target rather than a being with limitless potential.