Another month has passed and another has begun, whats up party people in the place to be? It’s your sad and confused author, Dan the Man.
I’ve finally come to terms or, found the words to say or, have reached an emotional equilibrium with everything that’s happening in the United States and the world.
When it all started I was sad and afraid and now I find myself wanting to be informed and informing my peers on the history of African Americans in the US and the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
And you know it sucks, to be in the place you’ve always lived, all you’ve ever really known and have to think that you’re undesirable, unloved, looked down upon, purposefully made to be disenfranchised and have to work even if not doubly as hard as your other race peers for the chips that have been put on your shoulder.
I’ve been sad that all of this is happening and also afraid of what could happen to me, if I ever wanted to drive cross country or go visit a state with more than a little hostile law enforcement.
I like to think that my non-assuming demeanor would allow me to get away with a warning if ever I was in an altercation but look how they did Elijah McClain man, that kid wasn’t gonna hurt nobody.
I have a hard time watching the videos because after a while you might as well name is “American Snuff” or some shit, it horrible the way they do our people, and I think what’s even worse is that personally I feel like i have no idea what to do.
Yes go to protests.
Yes share information on social media.
But is that all I can do?
Is that enough?
So I struggle with that too, and while America might as well be a wonder of the world, because it’s a fucking wonder how we can have so much tension in one such country, I want to have hope that we will make it through, that we shall overcome.
But man, is having hope hard or is holding out hope hard?
And I’m tired, I’m exhausted, and the last thing I think this movement needs is “thoughts and prayers.”
It needs decisive action, working policies, to crack down on the “Bad apples,” shit like that man, a complete reform, defunding even.
I’m not an island in this and I know that there are many groups and organizations and individuals working for the change we want to see but lord do I feel like an island and LORD, I hope and pray this change comes soon.
Anyway, even if your feed goes “back to normal” #BlackLivesMatter mother fucker.
Don’t ever forget that.