“The System”

With so much going on in the United States around the topics of police brutality, the Black Lives Matter Movement, athletes and celebrities speaking out and ect. listening to this spoken word poem really stuck with me. As a Black male who finds it that the odds are stacked against him, I thank Prentice for not only having the courage to write such a powerful piece, but for going on national television and performing it. I think that any person, no matter gender, race, age, social class, or whatever can relate to this poem in some type of way. It may not strike everyone on a personal level, and if it doesn’t then I believe that it can give that person a bit of insight of what it’s like to be in another person’s shoes.