It’s time for a public service announcement for white people
once AGAIN. I get it. You think we are animals. You think we’re savages. You think we’re beneath you and inherently inferior. You despise us because you think that whites
are superior in every way and that we are a different species, that we are
naturally criminal, ignorant, and violent.
To you, ALL Black people are niggers, a sub-human species that has no
value.
You and your fallacious system of white supremacy have
created this monster of criminality and ignorance you call niggers. You and your public policies, your racism,
your bigotry and lynching, your refusal to see us as equals, your hatred of us,
your intention to keep us undereducated, unemployed, and disenfranchised is
what’s created this nigger beast you loathe so much. It’s
your sick and diseased rampant ego that has allowed you to believe that you
could OWN a race of people, buy and sell us like cattle, profit from our blood,
sweat, and our complete cultural annihilation for your profit and continually
keep us down, ignoring the fact that only the most heinous and evil race of
people could be unapologetic in their enslavement of millions for no reason
other than the color of our skin.
But we aren’t inherently inferior. We aren’t inherently lazy or criminal, you aren’t
superior in any way. We are victims of
oppression, racism, bigotry, we are the victims of your deep-seated hatred of
us. WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS. We have the same feelings and emotions as you
do; we have the same exact potential as you if you give us the same chances. If someone killed your brother, your sister,
you would be outraged, you would hurt.
If someone repeatedly killed your family, if they did so with arrogance,
if they didn’t get punished but got paid vacations, you’d be ready to start a
war.
Well, you’ve slaughtered us.
We have suffered, we have suppressed our pain, we have sucked it up and
we can’t take it anymore. You’ve
murdered us and acted as if we don’t have a right to hurt, to cry, to feel
anger. You have killed our children,
shot us in the back, tased us, choked us, you’ve murdered our mentally ill like
you are on safari and you’ve yet to say that you’re sorry, that you regret your
actions. You continually tell us to stop
our whining; you’ve arrogantly and repeatedly told us to get over it, to suck
it up because our lives don’t mean shit to you.
Those of us who are uneducated and poor are nothing to you, you don’t
see us as human beings despite the fact that we are. You care more about police cars and trash
cans, you care more about keeping us oppressed than you do our lives, our
humanity.
So, what’s happening in Baltimore is your fault. You didn’t hear our cries. When we said, “Black Lives Matter” you said, “No
they don’t, all lives matter, yours are insignificant.” Our rage is your fault. We have a right to fight back, to revolt, to
stand up and say that we are not going to be your target practice any
more. As long as you think you are
better than us, as long as you work to keep us poor and oppressed and you
continue to take our lives, to murder us and act like it’s a sport to you, like
it’s entertainment, you can know that every time we reach a breaking point, you
are to blame. We are going to fight
back. We have every right to loot,
shoot, riot, and burn. You’ll win of
course. You have stockpiles of weapons
and you have prepared for our uprising. You
want to wipe us off the face of the planet.
This is what you’ve wanted for a long time. All of this could have been avoided. All you had to do was see us as human beings
that have the same feelings, emotions, and that our lives matter as much as
yours. You can’t wait to see our blood
run in the streets like a river. But
know that you are the source of all this strife because you refuse to treat us
like human beings.
Signed,
Black and fed up.
Copyright 2015 Scottie Lowe
