This post isn’t necessarily about spoken word, but it is about speaking out. I do have a certain stance on the police brutality and Black Lives Matter Movement, being a young Black man in America. To avoid and conflict or confrontation, I’ll do my best not to say anything too controversial while stating my viewpoints on the issue. I’m a very understanding person and I have a short series of questions for those who are against BLM and come up with reasons for what a Black person did wrong or should’ve done differently to prevent getting shot.
- If all lives matter, what’s the issue with Black people saying that their lives matter?
- Why do you speak out against the new Black Panther Party, but didn’t speak out when the KKK announced that they were making a return?
- Why do you voice your opinion about Black people making an uproar when a Black person is killed due to police brutality, but you all don’t cause an uproar when a White person is killed due to police brutality?
- Is it possible for someone to explain to me why there’s so much hatred for Colin Kaepernick and Olympic athletes for “disrespecting the flag”, but no one sees an issue with it when political figures do the same thing the athletes did?
- If all lives matter, why aren’t you all standing with those saying Black lives matter to in turn prove that all lives matter?
- How is it that you call Black people the racists because we “turn everything into a race issue”, but don’t see that statements like that cause us to turn everything into a race issue?
If anyone has the answers, please feel free to enlighten me so that I can have a better understanding of what it’s like on the other side of the fence.
-TheSpokenArt
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