Baltimore, I stand with you

A life was taken.

A life was taken in POLICE custody.

A life was taken in police custody and no one has answered to this MURDER.

A life was taken in police custody and no one has answered to this murder, and the ONLY thing that angers you is a few stores with broken windows?

The only thing that angers you is people “proving the stereotype by robbing and looting”.

A life was taken and the only thing you care about is a few stores with broken windows.

A life was taken, Freddie Gray will NEVER be born again, but buildings CAN be rebuilt.

Windows can be remade, fires can be put out, but a TAKEN life can NEVER be given back.

 A murdered person can NEVER be un murdered!

 A life was taken, and the only thing you care about is a few stores with broken windows.

Windows broken by the anger, the hurt and the fear, these windows were broken with words we no longer have, the emotions we no long know how to express.

We have been marching for justice since we stepped off those slaves ships, on the plantations over the bridges in Selma and in many streets across America.

 Yet we have not moved, we are in the same place.

A life was taken and I’m sick and tired. Sick and tired of the harsh reality of “a new day a new hash tag for another black man that was killed”.

I’m sick and tired of trying to get these new age blacks to realize if it affects one, it effects us all no matter how new your mercedes is.

I’m sick and tired of my nonblack brethren telling me to “be quiet, just do what MLK did”.

A life was taken, in police custody and you want me to be quiet?

I’m sick and tired of the CHURCH passively standing by quoting scriptures out of context to keep us at ease.

I’m sick and tired of watching America declare war on it’s citizens while coming up with lies to hide and disguise why we are even here.

 It’s because of YOU that we are even here.

Your murder our babies, husbands, cousins and brothers and get made when we react.

It’s all because of YOU.

You stole and killed to get America…

How many years later and you’re STILL doing THE SAME THING!

Systematic racism runs DEEP in America, and it’s got some of you.

A life was taken in police custody, Baltimore I stand with you!

If you love someone tell them,

I love you

Destaynee