Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Damn

I am twenty-two.
I am Black.
I have ridden BART through Fruitvale.
I could have as easily been murdered.
Damn.
Not even the sanctity of a young life can restrain the brute force of its rapacious power.
No colored body unwilling to submit peaceably to its daily blows remains intact.
If not to the grave, then to a cold hell to be tortured and raped.
Damn this beast!
DAMN! DAMN!

2 comments:

Natalia said...

So, finally leaving a comment.

But i feel you.. ( i mean, granted im not black, nor 22, nor male) But shit's hella real, and hella....sad. That folks could be brutally beaten, killed, and then still blamed and criminalized as if the murderers were not at fault. Reality his close to home for us no?...and as i kick it in the home town i stay at, theres no immigration raiding restaraunts, and etc...but randomly there's like...cops stopping cars...asking for ID's and proof of so called "legal residency" on one of the main streets infront of the neighborhoods were most recent immigrants live...coincedance?...was it a coincedance that Oscar was black?...was it a coincedence that israel attacks palestine?..i dunno.

shits deep, shits hitting the fan...DAMN (fareal)

jt said...

white supremacy is killing us body and soul. black and brown bodies are no boundaries white supremacists or their institutions are bound to respect.