Black

Our black is pain

No we dont want sympathy

We want justice

We come pleading

With the residue of

faint white Cracked lines

Comfortably sitting on our face

And we empty out our soul

Trying to explain

That we simply are

not okay

To be colored and Alive

Do you know what that means?

Institutional racism

Implicit bias

Translated to positive Bullshit

To dismiss an issue that

Deserves to be addressed

Like the mortality rate

With labor

The pain that

refused to be acknowledged

Pushed away with

She’s overreacting

It’ll be over soon

And my favorite

You’re strong

Will the privileged ever

Stop using minorities strength

Against them ?

Turning their faults

And in accomplishments

Into an excuse of why they can’t

Because they know in every way

We can

Hold up, wait, but

I did say WE CAN

Even if it causes the death of us

Yes

He can breathe out the

Words to say he’s not okay

That doesn’t mean he is.

Yes

That slave did keep working

With infected whip marks

That doesn’t mean

He can’t feel pain

Yes

He can run

Through his own neighborhood

But

Wait ...

A minority cannot experience

Fear

Emotions

Or

Pain

Without a motive

Those can only be used in the category

Of excuses for the privilege to get out of shit they took the time to create

Take responsibility

That’s the message they push on us

Okay,

But when will they?

Maybe this is to general

Let’s get personal

So the message sticks

Hair falling out

Excessive bruising

Vomiting

Inability to walk

Body fighting to tell you something is wrong bitch, but get this y’all

Apparently It comes with age.

At least until you’re in the hospital

At 25 with sepsis being told

You could of died because

“You decided to wait”

Or

When a person shoots at you

But you can’t leave until you finished

Your shift

And when you break down

Because you think he came back

You must be damaged

Because

Ptsd while black doesn’t exist

Look

I know this will only cause for

Defense

But if someone doesn’t tell them

They’ll never understand

That no policy, procedure, or law will

Erase the fact that

The color red will always be on their hands