Humans Not Hashtags
How can you tell me to
calm down when
57.5% of prostitution arrests (cbc)
are Black children
You may be surprised
but in America
U.S. citizens
are 80% of (cbc)
trafficking victims
It’s just crazy because
40% of those victims
Yes, are Black Americans
This cuts
It’s just crazy because
After hundreds of years
Black Americans
Are still the targets of
hatred, fear, obsession
How can you tell me to
quiet down when
Black People were just
13.4% of the population
before COVID
Did you know
more than 1 million
Americans have died
in this pandemic
They still won’t call it
A Holocaust though
No
Because
genocide is well hidden
Right in plain sight
Pun intended
It’s been our struggle
since Black skin
was “discovered”
By the 1%
That’s why BOP.gov
Reports 38.4% of us
populate prisons
Mystery uncovered
Imagine how many have died
Because hate-filled people
want to end us
The only defense given?
“Oh no, not this again”
Really, wow
It’s as if you can’t even pretend
to know how to
just be human
If it’s such a struggle
It’s time to pop that
fantasy bubble
The School To Prison Pipeline
sends 31% of
Black children into the system (aclu.org)
35% of death sentences are
Black Women, men, and children (NAACP)
66% of juveniles sentenced to death
are Black
Let me say that again
66% of juveniles sentenced to death
are Black
Why is there still a death sentence?
Why would anyone use it on children?
How the hell do you justify that?
We die in traffic stops
We are 63% more likely to be stopped (sc.edu)
Because racial profiling is a thing
We are 11.5% more likely to be searched (sc.edu)
Also, far less likely to find work
No stat needed for that
everyone on the planet
knows this trick
Use domination and oppression
Instead of learning our own life lessons
Project and Protect
Imagined slights and insights
That’s what L.E. can be to us
Using propaganda to handle
enemies within
A different skin
Projection
We never started a war
We’re still recovering
from the many waged against us!
All we said was “We Matter”
and extremists
went nuts!
Sounds like you need more stats
“How ‘bout ‘dat”
More than 88k Black Americans have died (covidtracking.com)
from COVID (2021, can’t find anything accurate at this point)
That’s 15% where race is mentioned (covidtracking.com)
Not because we are “inferior”
But because racists fear
they may not be superior
There’s no need to exterminate
people
Least of all
the ones deemed
least of all
Why? You are
so much better at everything?
in every way
all day, every day (so you say)
You literally spend
trillions to prove this
opinion
annually, without let up
It’s obvious
A massive setup
So we step up
To fight the system
holding us down
With the weight of
tyranny and oppression
On our necks
Most of us drown
But even during the pandemic
Our kids are still getting suspended
from school
All while being
gaslit
as they are locked up in prison
Shot at, assaulted, gang stalked, condemned
Racial profiling and systemic oppression
has never slowed down
It’s never ended
Even to this day
These matters are ignored
By our own president (like every single one before)
Who says all he needs to do
Is say yeah it’s real and my words
are true
Another racist trope spills
“Racism is not White people’s fault”
So who’s fault does the President think
racism is???
Careless whispers such as these
get us killed, beaten, evicted, suspended, denied
Constant grief, tortured
Did you know 25% of our boys (edweek.org)
And 14% of our girls
Are suspended from school
As if it’s a freaking rule
It must be
to keep us from educating our minds
How can a nation be
such a cold, cruel reality
Racists never stopped hitting back
against Brown V. Ed
The School to Prison Pipeline
is the result of that
Even during the pandemic
They still don’t call it a holocaust
Because the death toll is getting
too high
And these assaults are treated like
political gimmick
A large portion of the population
still thinks this is all fake
Black women literally saved the election
the presidency, and Democracy
Yes, once again the most reviled
step in to save everything
Because yes
we damn sure care about what
the future brings
Particularly to our children
and our children’s children
If we can’t have it
We fight for Human Rights
to make sure they will
Still, we are 2–3 times more likely to die
during pregnancy (cdc)
And 3 times more likely to die
during delivery (npr)
Our babies are 2–3 times
more likely to die (hhs)
and the response is
“We don’t know why”
Yes we do
RACISM
It’s blind
Yet true
Death by police (ncbi.nlm)
Kills 32% of our families
The response to this
undemocratic
genocidal slaughter
“All Lives Matter”
Except for the ones they deem worthy
of gas, bullets, and brands
Not to mention
murder
We’re not hashtags
We’re human
AMERICA CAN
AMERICA MUST
BE BETTER
DO BETTER
WE THE PEOPLE
DEMAND BETTER
HUMANITY FIRST
FUTURE FORWARD
DIVERSE DEMOCRACY
TREAT ALL AS ALL
AS
ALL ARE BORN FREE
