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What does Black history month mean to you?
Is it a month to celebrate our achievements?
To show how proud we are of our generation?
Let’s review the signs:
81% of kids who have same skin as you and me are in juvy for gang crimes
59% of those kids are in for homicide
500 men and women who were African American were killed by police officers since 1999
Countless other victims aren’t even given the time
So what’s changed
Was there a silent understanding exchanged?
What happened to equality for all?
You all saw
You all were there
But they dared and didn’t even care
So what’s changed?
Is the system arranged?
Or is it society that is out of range?
I see boys with pants below their butts
Girls forever looking like ducks
No pride in the streets
I’m just a young girl making beats
Seeing how my race has become manipulated, uneducated, discriminated and unmitigated
What’s changed
I carry myself proud
I have a voice and it demands to be loud
My skin color does not define me
But that’s all they see
I’m tired and feel uninspired
Why hold me back if I work twice as hard?
I run trying to get so far.
But my race
Miss the embrace and instead disgrace
Open your eyes and you’ll be fine
Rosa Parks didn’t refuse to move just so I can refuse my own kind
Malcolm X didn’t die just to be haunted
Martin Luther King Jr had a dream, but is this the dream that he wanted?
Equality for all is true
So what does Black history Month mean to you?
Looking at the past and finding it for humor?
Or looking at the past and incorporating it into our future
The choice is yours and please don’t be immature.