Why Are You So Loud

there comes a time when people you once respected reveal or you discover the real person behind the mask face facts people who never wanted you to do better than them are now wishing that you would shut your mouth stop your tweeting delete your facebook get out of the streets why are you so loud like the screams of the black child whose father is dead whose mother is grieving whose siblings are also fatherless it’s like the system was built to destroy us which of my brothers were around when the constitution was drafted yet we were drafted to fight your wars to fill your prisons to be treated like 3/5 of a man because of our skin now do you see? can you lift your blinders now? can you stop thinking all lives matter now? b l a c k l i v e s m a t t e r they mattered when white men kidnapped us from the mother land and when white men raped slaves who gave birth to bastard babies who grew to be house slaves because their skin was lighter but still they were slaves beaten, abused ripped apart from their families undocumented burials and sinking of black bodies in deep waters now generations later the mystery men who were buried in mass graves with no tombstone have descendants who do not know their great great great great great grandfather was beaten and disposed of like litter washing up on the shore and here we are over four centuries later the year was 1619 the year is 2020 black lives mattered when jim crow was written and Emmett Till was lynched by two white men because a white woman lied testified under oath and lied so a black boy died at 14 years old and the world saw his swollen mutilated body from the beating torture shooting and disposal of his black body in a river his unrecognizable face on covers of papers and magazines everywhere but the verdict was not guilty and here we are nearly seven decades later the year was 1955 the year is 2020 black lives mattered when Rodney King was tasered and beaten by five white officers who did not know they were being recorded beat the man until he was black and blue they were acquitted by the way remember the LA riots? when people took to the streets not because they were animals but because they were tired and the whole world could see why on the news in the media in their neighborhoods at their corner stores at their shopping centers on the streets but here we are nearly three decades later the year was 1991 the year is 2020 and Black lives still matter