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#iftheygunnedmedown which picture would they use? The one that shows my past. Living in the projects. Having no positive male role models and knowing that my gang affiliated friends had my back and protected me cause we was homies? What about the one that shows me in a suit and tie. High school and International Baccalaureate graduate. Poet. Preschool teacher.Academic. Student at an Elite University. The problem is that both represent who I am. You should care about the loss of my life, My Black and Latino life. regardless of if they depicted me as a thug or a college student. All Black Life matters. All Black futures matter. They are going to continue gunning us down, paying us less, keeping us away from jobs/education/healthy food/quality healthcare because White Supremacy and Racism teaches you that Black life does not matter. Either were criminals, or were savages killing ourselves, or were twerking and having teenage babies, or were rappers that dont care, or whatever other narrative they give you that makes you apathetic towards Black Life and makes you think that we deserve how we are treated. They murder us and imprison us whether or not we play their game, dress their way, speak their language, go to their schools, and play the role of Good Blacks. Respectability politics cannot get us our of our situation because we are not valuable to yall no matter what we do.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 22:47:31 +0000

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