Proper Perspective

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I never knew you could board a commercial airline with an animal head.

I can’t even make it pass TSA with 3.5 oz of Sportin’ Waves for my head.

I guess my perception is off.

At times, I don’t see the prospective benefits of the law.

Yeah, my perception is off.

 

At times, I am compelled to put my concerns into proper perspectives.

In my proper perspective;

I applaud the major airlines for taking action against the illegal killing of African-Animals.

I wonder when the business sector will take action against the illegal killing of African-Americans.

I imagine the public outcry of Black Lives Matter

does not really matter…

 

At times, I don’t see the prospective benefits of the law.

I guess my perception is off.

When my perception is off,

I take a step back to see new perspectives.

In my proper perspective;

I see past the optical illusions,

I hear what is not said amidst the confusion.

 

At times, I don’t see the prospective benefits of the law.

Yeah, my perception is off.

When my perception is off,

I investigate to gain proper perspectives.

In my proper perspective;

I see they love animals,

it’s only the jungle bunnies they hate.

 

In my proper perspective;

I see you will get sentenced for fighting a pit bull

before you receive an indictment for killing an African-American in the United States.

 

–@StevieStreets | from THE BLACK LIVES MATTER COLLECTION: Proper Perspective

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Good Grief

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You could exemplify the epitome of peace.

Yet they’ll say you should’ve been more polite,

after you’re murdered by the police.

 

Good grief, it’s getting hard to survive.

If they don’t bury you in the system,

if they don’t kill you in the streets,

if they don’t kill you in prison,

they’ll kill your innocence; remember The Central Park Five.

 

I remember when the young black male was the most endangered species in America.

Nowadays, innocent, magnificent African Animals should be protected.

Yet those that have sworn to protect and serve are murdering innocent, magnificent African-American Humans in America.

 

Good grief; the police will fire 50 shots, if you’re an unarmed groom to be in America.

 

Good grief; the police will fire 41 shots, if you’re an unarmed immigrant, sitting on a stoop in America.

 

Good grief; the police will fire 39 shots, if you’re an elderly woman at home alone in America.

 

Good grief; the police will fire 137 shots, if you flee from police in America.

 

The digital era has given the world a glimpse of what inner city districts have witnessed for years.

They will kill you on video, they do not care.

They will kill you with your hands up, they do not care.

Black Lives Matter is the digital equivalent of shedding tears.

 

The war on drugs has ravaged the inner city districts for years.

They make money when the drugs, guns, and violence appear.

They make money when the District Attorneys and the Judges distribute them years.

Black Lives Matter is the digital equivalent of “does anybody care?”

 

Black Lives are being wiped out of society, look at the incarnation rates.

They falsely accuse and over sentence Blacks and Latinos, I’m afraid to substantiate.

 

Black Lives are being wiped out of society, look at the abortion rates.

They gave syphilis and AIDS to Blacks, I’m afraid to procreate.

 

Black Lives are being wiped out of society, at epidemic rates.

Too many mothers and fathers are burying their sons and daughters in the United States.

 

I’m beginning to drown in all of the blood that was spilled in the streets.

I’m beginning to drown in all the tears that were shed in the streets.

Good Grief!

 

–@StevieStreets | Good Grief

 

 

August 28, 1955 – August 28, 2015

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“I saw that his tongue was choked out.

 

I noticed that the right eye was lying on midway – his cheek.

 

I noticed that his nose had been broken like somebody took a meat chopper and chopped his nose in several places.

 

As I kept looking I saw a hole which I presumed was a bullet hole.

 

And I could look through that hole and see daylight on the other side.”

 

-Mamie Till | #BlackLivesMatter: August 1955 – August 2015

#BlackLivesMatter

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“A kid gets killed by the police and I buy a T-shirt and before I can wear that one, there’s another kid and I’m running out of closet space.” -David Chappelle | #BlackLivesMatter