Melanated Trees and Muffled Screams

Repeating History

Picture this,
A commercial filled to the brim with melanin, almost spilling over with the fluid in our veins bursting with anger
Different stories of different people all going to the same protest because of the same overlooked issues in our society today
The same commercial in which a woman not of color represents a spectrum of people from different backgrounds she can't relate to

So please explain to me how she can give her slight smile towards the obvious protest for change as if she's a government official, as if she's not on a reality TV show that has a constant search party out for the reality
How can she stand as the face and voice for a community of individuals she hasn't stood on the welcome mat for

She stood on the shoulders of the actual struggling people of color who have a voice and are ready to yell, yet that's considered 'ghetto' and 'overdramatic'

In this commercial she holds a can that should be filled with soda, but instead is filled with something that can't be shaken up to make explode, something a white person may call "a typical. black. attitude"

You see there might be attitude in my voice and salt when I talk to counteract the sugar coated "typical white attitude" sprinkled over everyday black issues
But how can we be expected to accept what the media is throwing at us when that blue can represents the same can thrown at a little black girl in A Time To Kill in 1996 by the white men out to eliminate one black person at a time

That can represents the 'black lives matter' competition 'blue lives matter' because we always have to compete in life, but we're always a step behind thanks to the heavy baggage on our backs and the spit in our face as you try to spit out your reasons why you're against us

That can represents the 'cans' on a black woman's chest that get objectified by a white man because that's all he sees in her, a shot in music videos, sexualizing a body that includes a balanced head on our shoulders yet that is ignored. He does not see a woman to bring home to his parents and possibly split a can of pop with

No because when you have a black person and 'pop' in the same sentence I think of the sound of a gunshot of an individual who didn't deserve it
Not because he or she was an honor student, but because they were a person all the same
The beginning of that commercial probably started with "okay shoot" right before they started rolling
And the end message was a cop saying "okay shoot" to his accomplices about a black person with his hands up
Tongue rolling with words barely spoken in defense
Body rolling down to the ground
Tears rolling down the face of a loved one
Because did you forget?
Us black people are loved
By me
By us
By each other
And that's something we don't need a white person's help representing