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My Race Is Not Your Burden

Living in White America

Summer Hill
Oct 19, 2016
Colorado
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My Race Is Not Your Burden
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Let's talk about race, maybe?

Quite frankly, this should not be an issue in the first place, but apparently, there is an elephant in the room and I'm going to address it.

I'm done with the "I'm sorry", and I'm tired of "All lives matter." When this is being said, I am not thinking, "wow thank you, they care." I'm thinking that people obviously know there is an issue, but no one is trying to fix it.

We protest for equality and we are scolded for not doing so peacefully. We change and protest peacefully and then we get scolded for offending our country. News flash America, you have been offending the black race for centuries.

Why are we fighting for equality, when we were all born on the same earth?

Don't mask our hardship with "All lives matter", because of course, all lives matter. The issue is some lives matter more than others and that is what we are fighting to fix. Don't live in a color blind society. Telling people you don't see race, believe it or not, is racist. We want you to see our color and admire us for what we are, people.

Why do people hate being called racist more than racism?

My black race is not your burden. I refuse to sit back and watch black on black crime just being considered crime and white on black crime being considered justice. Justice is something we have yet to receive.

This is not a letter from pain, this is a letter from anger. The future is for those who prepare for it, and we have been getting prepared for centuries. Enough is enough.

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