@jesse
a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do …
its basic mathematics, the more we learn about who we are and how we got here the more we will mobilize….
this is for also the black women in particular who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves
we can and will do better for you…now
what we been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people
every day
so what’s gonna happen is that we are gonna have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function….
and ours…now
yesterday would have been young Tamir Rice’s 14th birthday….
so I don’t wanna hear about anymore how far we’ve come when paid public servants can pull a drive by on a 12-year-old playing alone in a park in broad daylight, killing him on television and then going home to make a sandwich…
tell Rekia Boyd how it’s so much better to live in 2012 than 1612 or 1712, tell that to Eric Garner, tell that to Sandra Bland, tell that to Darrian Hunt…
all of us getting money, that alone isn’t gonna stop this
dedicating our lives to get money just to give it right back for someone’s brand on our body when we spent centuries praying with brands on our bodies, and now we pray to get paid for brands on our bodies
there has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of, there’s been no job that we haven’t done, there’s no tax that they haven’t levied against us and we’ve paid all of them
but freedom is somehow conditional here
“you’re free….” they keep telling us
“but she would have been alive if she hadn’t acted so free..”
freedom is always coming in the hereafter but the hereafter is a hustle
we want it now!
the burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander
that’s not our job, stop with all that
if you have a critique for our resistance then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression
if you have no interest in equal rights for black people then do not make suggestions to those who do….
sit down!
we’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness
uses and abuses us, burying black people out of site and out of mind
while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil
black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations than stealing them
gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes
before discarding our bodies like vines of strange fruit
…..just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re not real
bluebill
la luna negra (a haiku)
