Here's the thing

I just don’t understand
How my race is
Constantly criminalized,
Forever chastised,
Never recognized.

We riot and protest
The death of ANOTHER
Unarmed black person
At the hands of police.

“Be quiet about it”

Is my blatant inequality
Making YOU uncomfortable?

But when we are Silent in protest;
A national outcry.
But still another
Black life is lost;

Lifeless on the pavement.
Movement has ceased
In their chest.
Their last breath
A fight.

Our daily lives
A struggle:
Selling CDs,
Not using a turn signal,
Reading,
Having a barbecue..

Am I next?

Judge, jury and executioner.
Black in America
No due process
I guess