I am asking you to explode the canon with what we must make sure is remembered in this nation. We cannot leave the duty of elegy for black bodies and calls for our fellow citizens to rise, even if wounded or enraged or scared, to the catalogues of solely black artist. We must write the American Lyric like Claudia Rankine so fearless writes, no matter now brutal or reflective it might be for you. There are people I cannot reach because what I make is degraded (& why not glorified?) for its label of black art. I implore, I need you to make art, black, dark art that shines an honest light on the histories of your paler kin. I ask you to join those fighting, under the cry of "Black Lives Matter", in whatever way you can. Research ways you can be involved in your local community, think critically about how you can use your privilege and influence effect change; I challenge you to make art that demands the safety of me, of many of your writing siblings, of so many people walking the streets in fear of those who are charged to protect us, even of people who we hesitate at times to call our fellow Americans.
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Black Lives Matter
PoesíaMeaningful Poems. Some of these poems are from: http://hellopoetry.com/tag/blacklivesmatter/ I don't own any of the poems (unless stated) and I give full credit to the authors. "We won't stop shouting until we are heard."
