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if you don’t care about black people and our struggles block me and mute this thread.
the first time i remember hearing about an unarmed black person getting murdered, i was 10 years old. i was sitting on the floor getting ready to play the wii and i happened to hear “17 year old Trayvon Martin” and i just stopped everything i was doing.
the next time i remember hearing about another unarmed black child getting murdered i was 12, it hurt me more because Tamil and I were the same age. i get to keep living my life, his was taken away at the same age. i realized then, age didn’t matter to these people.
the next time i heard about another shooting was philando castile. in his car with his daughter. i knew then that my mom and dad’s lives were no longer worth saving if i or my siblings were present. i was 14 and quickly realized that i don’t matter to these people.
a lot more murders occurred since then and in between the ones i said. those are the ones i vividly remember like i remember it down to the exact clothing i was wearing when it happened. this is real. and i’m tired.
tired of seeing my people being killed. tired of seeing white people be allowed to be blatantly racist and say blatantly racist things and get away with it. i’m tired of being black in america.
i’m tired of the privilege white people have and live and breathe off of. bro, there are whole towns, i as a black woman cant go to because, if i leave after dark i’ll get lynched. in what way is that ok. you get to take my life because i’m black??
i’m just completely confused as to why black people get treated like this. we were stolen from our country, forced into slavery, then had to fight a war that wasn’t ours worry about because we weren’t citizens, then we weren’t even freed for the right reasons.
it was a war tactic to gain leverage in the winning side. then after we became free, rules were put into place so we ended up working for the whites who overworked us, might i add everything we got paid was given right back to them. like bro. huh?
then when we did finally find our own way. more rules were put into place so we couldn’t even do stuff as citizens of the country. can’t vote. can’t use the water fountain with whites. can’t use the bathroom with whites. can’t even sit on a BUS next to them.
let’s not even get into the amount of riots, marches, protests, sit-ins, boycotts and arrests we went through JUST TO BE EQUAL. and after allat. we still had to fight to survive. racism didn’t go away, it’s just stopped being ok.
after all that police just started harassing black people. arresting us for the same things white people were doing. talking down on us. making sure we don’t move forward. at all.
then here come the courts giving out harsh sentences for the same things white people were getting slaps on the wrists for. this is mesmerizing like it’s literally twisted. how do you hate people that YOU stole? HOW DO YOU STEAL SOMEONE AND THEN GET MAD THAT THEY’RE HERE??
and now they just out here, still killing us in cold blood. uniform or no uniform, they get to kill us and get away with it. i’m so tired man. i’m scared everyday. that’s not a way to live. i cant even live in my own home without getting murdered.
i’m scared. i’m tired. i’m pissed. i want justice. I Want Peace. I’m 17 years old. I should be worrying about whether or not ima have a senior year. Not whether ima be alive if i ever encounter a police officer.
