What do we seek?
Justice!
What do we demand?
Justice !
What don’t we get?
Justice.
We don’t get justice.
It’s just us
Marching in the streets.
It’s just us
Fighting for peace.
It’s just us
Dying on the concrete.
via: Al Jazeera
We get nothing, but a persecuted existence.
The Police gets to tattoo targets on our lives.
The Police gets a license to exterminate our families.
It’s just them
Swatting down us like insects.
It’s just them
Silencing our voices.
It’s just them
Stripping us of our humanity.
via: Christ Church Cathedral
How many more times will we be swatted down?
How many more times will we be silenced?
How many more times will we be stripped of our humanity?
How many more times will we have
To Grieve
Our fathers and mothers,
Our sons and daughters,
Our sisters and brothers
That are unjustly taken from us?
Related: Finding What’s Lost
LaQuan McDonald.
Philip Coleman.
Quintonio Legrier.
Stephon Watts.
Eric Garner.
Ethan Saylor.
Charleena Lyles.
How many more names will we have to add to this list?
Charleena Lyles
Was a pregnant mother met
With police violence
When she called for protection.
Charlene was targeted and her life was taken.
She got a fatal gun wound.
Charleena deserved justice—not death.
via: Liberation News
Charleena was a human being
Who deserved to be treated
With dignity and respect.
We are all human beings
Who deserve to be treated
With dignity and respect.
Related: Signs from the March for our Lives
Charleena was not disposable.
We are not disposable.