AS WE APPROACH THE 51st ANNIVERSARY OF DR. KING'S ASSASSINATION APRIL 4, 2019, WHEN WILL WE STOP TALKING ABOUT RACISM... WHEN WILL I STOP TALKING ABOUT RACISM...AND WHEN WILL AMERICA STOP KILLING ME BECAUSE I AM BLACK?
I WILL STOP TALKING ABOUT RACISM when you admit White America, the pathology of your White Privilege and your White Supremacy are real. I WILL STOP TALKING ABOUT RACISM when you admit White America, it is impossible for JUSTICE to coexist with INEQUALITY. Justice is a constant—either it is or it isn’t. Inequality is a by-product of Racism and is also a constant. I WILL STOP TALKING ABOUT RACISM when you admit White America that you are not concerned about my well being as a person whose hue of skin is Black. WHEN WILL AMERICA STOP KILLING ME BECAUSE I AM BLACK? TRY NEVER! If you are Black and you stand still, like Eric Garner, America will KILL you. If you are Black and you run, like Stephon Clark, America will Kill you. If you are Black and you run away, like Walter Scott, America will KILL you. If you are Black and drive away, like Sam Dubose, America will KILL you. If you are Black and you walk away slowly, like Terence Crutcher, America will KILL you. If you are Black child playing in a park like Tamir Rice, America will KILL you. If you are a Black teenager not bothering anyone, like Trayvon Martin, America will KILL you. If you are a Black teenager and simply playing your music like Jordan Davis, America will KILL you. If you are Black and get on your hands and knees like Kenneth Walker, America will KILL you. If you are Black and you comply with every word that you are told...even if you pose no threat...like Brendan Hester and Philando Castile...and even if there is absolutely no reason for Police to be afraid, “America’s Occupation Troops” will pump bullets into your Black body, and never miss a minute of sleep. If you are Black 23-year-old Richard Collins, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army ready to graduate from Bowie State and defend this Racist country, America will KILL you. If you are Black and White and you help Blacks register to Vote, like Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Viola Liuzzo, America will KILL you. If you fight Racism, like Harriette and Harry T. Moore, like Vernon Dahmer, like Medgar Evers, like Dr. Martin Luther King, like Rev. George Lee, like Herbert Lee, like James Reeb, like Samuel Leamon Younge Jr., like Wharlest Jackson ---and the list goes on and on and on---America will KILL you. If you are a Black youngster visiting your relatives in Mississippi like Emmett Till, America will KILL you. If you are Black children and attending church in Birmingham Alabama, like Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley America will KILL you. If you are Black and attending church in Charleston South Carolina, like Cynthia Hurd, Daniel Simmons Sr., Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Ethel Lance, Tywanza Sanders, Myra Thompson, Susie Jackson, and Depayne Middleton Doctor. America will KILL you. (Simmons died later in the hospital.) The Only Reason a White person could walk into a Black church ...sit for an hour in that church...and then shoot and KILL 9 Black persons praying, is Deep Rooted Racism and Even Deeper Hatred. Racism and Hatred is the order of the day in Racist America. When Racism is the 800-pound gorilla in every room, What do you do? You fight the hatred of racism with every fiber of your being even when the Racism is perpetrated by the president of the United States and his appointed Attorney General ---who to remind you-- was confirmed by the United States Senate. Don’t Talk About Me Until You Have Talked To Me… Don’t Underestimate Me Until You Have Challenged Me… Don’t Judge Me Until You Know Me. The Struggle Continues!
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