Social Injustice

Troy Davis.

Trayvon Martin.

In a year’s time frame, killing me is the project.

Erasing memories of royalty when my daddy was king and mommy was the queen.

Blurring color lines to define more white less hue less you more waiting for our time.Denying my shine and in the meantime filling my brother’s cranium with titanium bullets.

Scraping together facts but forgetting the artifacts that prove justice, it’s just us.

But am I next?

Having to guard my life from those I pay taxes for to protect me in a country where they neglect me.They signed those bill of lies on the breaking bones of my ancestral family.

My sister excels above the academic standard surpassing her classmates therefore a threat to be handled.

Is she next?

In desperation they’ve began gunning down our children, mocking a race to our face on television networks, and silencing our outcries.

Biblically speaking our fallen may be dead but trust me they will never die.

My educated mother, my strong black mother, my loving tender giving to the world, God fearing mother…is she next?

How many of us may be taken for your outrage to satisfy your thirst for African blood?

How decadent are we that we become morsels, moreso picked off one by one.

Is my chocolate skin appealing to you, devil?

Are my almond shaped eyes and strawberry lips fueling your envy?

Do my voluptuous body and sassy curves entice you?

Well I hate to disappoint but I won’t be sacrificed to you. Remove my body from your altar. Take down your rituals. And embrace my existence even though it’s your nature to resist it.

My people elected a president who set precedent. Decreased unemployment, reversed military deployment, fought the deficit and set the record straight. Encouraged us black kids to go to school and accomplished more goals than all those before him. Thus classified as a snob by the Republican mob.

Tell me, if you dare, is he next?

And here we are. A people of elegance, beauty, and refinement. A people of soul, rhythm, and motion.

And there you are. Jealous, bitter, hateful and distasteful. The most ornery sight I have ever seen.

Sneering at what little my people have due to your greed.

I think I know the answer, it is definitely what it seems.

Tell me, white America…who’s next?

Are we?