BEING BLACK

I ran and saw people running beside me. I looked around for my family members but couldn't find them, I heard gun shots and the sound of people falling to the ground so I hid in a corner and prayed.

A policeman looked at the direction I was hiding in and started walking towards the corner I was hiding in with his gun pointed and his hand hovering above the trigger ready to shoot if there is any movement and I moved further into the corner, when he was very close to where I was another policeman called him and he looked at my direction for a little while before retreating and going to meet the policeman that called him.

I stayed in the corner until the sound of gun shots, people falling to the ground and police sirens died down and when I came out I wish I didn't, I saw the bodies of people I knew and didn't know lying there all dead.

I looked for my family members and saw my mum, my little brother and my dad dead all lying side by side, I looked for my brother and saw a body that was burnt beyond recognition and I remember that my brother was part of the people that were burning posters that said no black people allowed.

I vowed to kill the person that did this.

Watch Akilah a black girl with no family as she struggles to survive.