My voice shall be heard
I can’t breathe
I’m drowning, fighting to swim up for air
To reach out and yell for my voice to be heard, but people don’t care.
I’m fighting for a reason. my voice shall be heard for the reason I say “Black Lives Matter”
But what is pulling me down, causing me to struggle is 5 cinder-blocks.
Holding me down under, wanting to keep me quiet. Saying “All lives Matter”
All lives should matter, but it is never the case.
Take a look down in neighborhoods you’re afraid of going to and the truth will be in your face.
Funny thing about judgement is the things that can be perceived.
You can keep the same look and call it something different, it becomes accepted and believed.
Look at a Caucasian in the suburbs in shoes, pants, and a hoody jacket, he’s profiled as a skater,
But an African American with the same thing on, he’s profiled as a thug, a law violator.
My voice shall be heard.
Things are actually funny to me when people finally hear a voice.
Like when “black Lives Matter” is chanted, it’s looked at as a takeover by force or by choice.
People perceive it as black lives are better than any other life, like European domination over hundreds of years.
& so people quickly want to shut that down, acting quickly out of fear.
This isn’t the first time it has been spoken from anyone’s mouth.
You can look at documentaries, talk on oppressed rebellions in the 1800s, in the south.
one group of slaves rebelled and killed white people brought up fear,
that if that one group did that, then all of them will stand up and takeover within the year.
They acted quickly in fear, adding more violence,
just to keep black slaves down under control, voices kept in silence
My voice shall be heard
Why should my voice be kept quiet because of violence within my race
Government condoned these ways just to keep us in place.
Black lives taken by white had no offense
Black lives taken by blacks gave a small served sentence.
It does not matter how intelligent, how nice I can be to change my fate.
I’m limited on choice of expression & clothes I choose to wear, which produces judgement of hate
My voice shall be heard.
Interesting thing is when people hear a person support black lives matter, they don’t ask why?
Jump to conclusion that they’re racist radicals or cop haters, ignoring explanations, listening, they won’t try.
Because people paint the picture that the media shows
Angry black people burning places down, call them thugs is the way it goes.
If all lives matter, then I should be able to do normal things and be free.
Not being harassed and stopped, being asked where I’m going, why I’m running, just let me be.
See you can abide by the law and supposedly it’s okay.
But why is it hard for little kids to go out and play.
There are little kids now that are more nervous to walk from school with their book bags,
Because they know when they see a police, they can be a twitter’s hashtag.
kids are traumatized when they go out for playtime
No water guns, no toys, can’t even go outside.
Little kids get stopped because they “look” like grown men, yelled at with guns facing them in the day time.
That’s just the small things that happen nationwide
If I’m not safe, it’s not because the area I live in, it’s the people unfamiliar with it.
My voice shall be heard, so deal with it.
A perception of why there is an outcry and support of a "movement" not categorized as a "group"
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