Black Lives MATTER
We are serving a cause
To wake up this somnolent behaviour
To learn to not discriminate.
You cannot see indifference
When it smacks you in the face
You say all lives matter
Like we're one big happy race.
If this was the case,
Let's look at the odds
A disproportionate number of black men and women,
In unskilled jobs.
Do you think that's because the colour of their skin makes them less intelligent ?
Or do you think opportunity has been sparse due to the colour of their skin?
Whatever you would like to believe,
This is the reality.
There are two mirrors and two views. Luckily.. you have the good view.
You cannot educate someone who does not wish to learn,
It's like writing an essay for them and they take a lighter to it and watch it burn.
It's abhorrent and disgusting
And an inhumane disgrace
What's happening right now and all the previous years to date.
When i put up my status,
'Black lives matter'
I get hit back with a clap of
'All lives matter'
Did you miss the point?
So do I need to explain again ?
Yes all lives matter
But you're missing the point my friend.
You then go on to talk about
The many white lives that have been lost
Wait a minute..
are you actually comparing the same unjust?
We are talking about black lives
Yet you managed to find a way
To make this about white people
White privilege again.
See my status was to explain
That we are fighting this cause
For years black people have been oppressed,
They've been viciously ignored
For years we have been attacked for the colour of our skin
Didn't get that job
Or salary
Coincidence you think?
You have all the credentials
The white guy has none
But he gets offered the job
How do you figure out that one?
Open your eyes
And wake up to the reality
It's a white mans world
With a 'black mans brutality.'
Always blame the black man
The thug or so it seems
Am I wrong ?
Or is this just a dream.
So when we are saying
BLACK LIVES MATTER
we are making you aware of a cause
That so many people choose to ignore,
We are waking the world up to see,
Black lives matter just as much as other lives. It's a cause, not a pause to undermine a black person,
It's raising awareness for the slaves that dug graves for the future, that tried to make a way to pave new ways for society and carve out black hate.
Ancestors carried buckets.. on their backs daily,
It was only 40 years ago no blacks were splashed all over the windows of buses and shops. Some people still have this mentality!
In China recently, macdonalds were refusing black people. In 2020!!!!! Black hate is EVERYWHERE. You don't need to go out to find it if you're black.. it finds you.
I could go somewhere and be treated very differently, because the colour of my skin. You may say I'm overthinking. But I feel the uncomfortableness, I witness the look. But.. you're not in my skin. So it's okay right? It's okay for me to be surrounded by white people and feel uncomfortable being the only black person somewhere? Because you are not experiencing the same view I am, or the feeling. We need to make a change. Or because I'm mixed race do you think that makes a difference? I'm not seen as mixed, I'm seen as a black woman. Remember, the truth is people see the colour not the mix, and boy I am proud.
The list is so endless. We could go on forever about the hate towards a black person, but the truth of the matter is, it's time for an awakening and for black people to feel the freedom that you feel on a daily basis.
If the death or George Floyd
Cannot make you see
Then white privileged
Is all you will ever be.
It's a sad time when you still feel interrogated for applauding a cause,
That's rightly so so painful, and for many very sore.
Throwing more hate on to people because they're rioting,
Shows us the highly marginal difference in race and how far we have to go to be listened, to be heard.. hate cannot drive out hate as Martin Luther King said, but if the man in authority only speaks hate, then what choice do these people have?
George Floyd did not die in vain
We are raising awareness
Through his suffering and pain,
So I will say It louder and I will say it again,
BLACK LIVES MATTER TODAY AND ALWAYS.
Jennifer Carrie Day
