What is it about us that compels people to bomb and shoot up our churches? Slam our head into concretes, lynch us, gun us down in the streets, publicly humiliate us, target our bodies for incarceration?
Is it us America? Or should I say AmeriKKKa? Or is it something so deep, dark, and ugly inside of you you'd rather play mind games and lie to yourself, tell yourself that this cancer is not really there? Call the murderer "mentally ill", "clean shaven", a "quiet and polite" schoolboy anything EXCEPT a racist hell-bent terrorist in your media. Try to claim that this Clay Aiken look-alike is actually "light skinned black or mixed of some sort" on twitter? Have your politicians convince you that this is not about anti-blackness, that its about religious freedom, or gun control. Are you really that afraid to confront your own racism? Can somebody travel from out of town to the most historically prominent black church in the country, say the words "you're raping our women and taking over the country and you've got to go", and gun down nine innocent black lives in a way that isn't racist? And what do you want us to do? Protest? Sing in the streets? Send another eloquent negro leader to speak articulately about your hidden evils so that you can sick the FBI on him, have him assassinated, and white wash his legacy? How do we protect ourselves? White supremacy is everywhere. School, prison, the courthouse, the workplace, the kitchen, the tv, and now in our own churches. What can we do except either shoot back or hope that we aren't next? Do you really expect us not to retalliate this time? How can it not be personal? We can't go to pool parties, wear hoodies, eat skittles, walk in the street, sit in our own homes, and now pray without thinking that there was another black person doing the same thing and it got them brutalized or killed. You think we really going to sit around peacefully and wait for our demise like good little Negroes? Do you think that we forgot when Malcolm said by any means necessary? Or are you going to listen this time when we tell you #BlackLivesMatter ?? But the question we all want answered is; am I next?
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