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Ever since Colin Kaepernick decided to sit in protest of the
national anthem, my inner field negro has been rising up.
For some reason we deny that this was a country of misfits
that banded together with aid of France to overthrow a Monarchy.
We tend to forget the genocide of the Indigenous people.
We forget about the robbery of southern states from Mexico.
We choose to stick to the friendly version of Martin Luther
King, Jr.
We keep saying that Rosa Parks was the first lady to sit at
the front of the bus.
America likes to tell the story of the compliant nigger.
We do not like protests of Denmark Vassey, Mark Clark, Fred
Hampton, Ida B. Wells, Assata Shakur, Tupac Shakur and countless others. That’s
why Black History teachers teach the same bullshit every year.
America will never forget 9/11, but fuck slavery, fuck the
native people of this land, and fuck anyone who wasn’t of western European
decent before Jane Addams.
Fuck the fact that the current condition of black folk is a
systemic purpose.
And fuck you if you don’t believe that white supremacy was
the very basis of the founding of this “experiment”.
I could quote many sources to back up the aforementioned,
but it would really distract you from my point.
America likes the docile-ass nigger.
“You can make music, but it has to fit our agenda and under
our contract!” See Chance The Rapper.
“You can play basketball, but we have a dress code and a
code of ethics!” See AI(i) (and if you have to ask, just stop reading this shit
now.)
Your white privilege has allowed you to stay on welfare more
than blacks, use heroin more than blacks, kill each other more than black on
black crime, and have the ability to transcend class at a higher rate than
blacks.
But White America still sees a problem when a half-breed
professional quarterback decides to sit in protest?
That’s some fucked up shit!
You choose to deny certain fabrics of the flag, but ignore
the fact that the armed forces have by far the worst system in which to protect
the soldiers that put their lives on the line.
But I guess as long as you can say that you are not white
gives you the upper hand, right?
America hated Ali. Hated Malcolm X. Hated Sandra Bland.
Hated Oscar Grant, III. Hated Sean Bell. Hated Trayvon Martin. Hated Michael
Brown. Hated Tamir Rice. They hated everything that these people stood for in
death.
America has yet to respect the Black life.
While I appreciate the slogan #blacklivesmatter, it’s a far
cry from the necessary change in the halls of congress needed to make
#blacklivesequal.
Fuck your matter.
Make black lives equal.
These are just my petty two cents.
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