Dear editor,
When I heard the verdict for Darren Wilson in the Mike Brown trial, I was upset due to what I felt was an act of disrespect toward black lives. Listening to many young people express their anger and even hate via text message, group chats and social media, I realized that biggest response to this situation was not “how can we come together to stop this” but violence. I was inspired to write a piece to speak to my generation. I want them to realize as long as we see ourselves as victims, we will never be anything less than a victim. Violence leads to more violence, anger leads to more anger and hatred leads to more hatred. What will that do but keep things the same? I wanted to write a piece that said “How can we change this?”
Answer me this…
Why is it that when tragedy rings
Violence is the one that answers?
Why are so many of us plagued with the mindset “whoa is me” but we’re slow to speak and
yet we turn to post pictures of our frustration on IG and
spit out one hundred and forty characters of anger through a tweet while trying to confront others of a situation by saying Facebook me
No Take a seat
Answer me this…
Why are we not teaching the next generation how to be free.
But instead through our action as we seem to be teaching them the true meaning of captivity.
Yes I said it we as a people are bound… And have given ourselves a name change so that we’re now known as victim and not once do we take responsibility instead we blame it on the system.
Answer me this?
If the justice system was called the just us system would you still feel like it failed? Would you still be walking around like a martyr as if it were to a cross that you were nailed?
Answer me this…
Why is it that death of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown
Has only brought forth the type of unity that exposes belligerence
No one focused on Vigilance
Everyone focused on the protest but no one focused on deliverance
How can we change it?!
It’s not rocket science
If we could just stop the defiance
And get with peace to build an alliance
We can break the silence and speak up to stop the violence
Who’s brave enough?
Bullets flying, young ones dying, parents are burying their children can’t keep from crying
Answer me this
When will you realize that it’s not okay that our peers are gone in a wink we must get it together
I don’t want us to be the first generation to become extinct
Because you see the more that hate grows The more Love is starting to shrink
It stinks because no one is brave enough to be the voice of today that’s the missing link
Indeed
It’s like we want change to be
But no one wants to be the change we want to see.
Answer me this…
When will enough be enough?
Black boys priding themselves in gang banging with the bloods and the crypts
Not realizing that blood stands for the blood bath given to those who don’t cooperate
and crip is for crippling those they can’t annihilate
Black young girls priding themselves in being fast, some doing it for cash,
Because in this race of losing your virginity they don’t want to be last.
Answer me this…
When are we going to speak up?
As a people desiring true freedom
When are we going to speak out and bring unity to the chaos?
When are we going to stop hiding behind social media and truly let our voice be heard?
Answer me this..
Are your parents hugging you out of fear or out of love?
To my generation We say we’ve had enough but I’m calling the bluff we must stop putting up with this stuff
until we move from rioting to rallying to be the change we want to see. We will never ever see the change we want to be
