I am...What

I think,

Therefore I am

I am

Therfore I think

I'm Black.

Therefore I'm feared

I fear because I'm black

I hear violence, breathe opression, 

With my eyes wide shut I see crying, not insurrection

But

My community rejects me

You don't act like us, talk like us, think like us

But I'll be targeted like you, I look like you, I struggle with you

NO

You're "African" they say

In there eyes I bang drums and chant the night away

But I respond

I am you

Just because my ancestors came on planes and not ships

Does not eliminate me from your pain and hardships

I struggle with you, I bleed with you, 

Its not what I but what we've been through

Remember to the fuzz we are one and the same

Their eyes lack nuance, like broken window panes

They see me, they see you, they think," shoot!"

And self defense they will claim....

But remember we are one and the same

Like you, my people are slaughtered by our supposed protectors

Like you I toil to be one of the defectors, 

From this broken system

Like you, I am you

Like me, you are I

But ultimately, we are we