#creatingourown

[phonzeejunior]

“Just because I’m Pro-Black does not make me Anti-White” • • For over 400 years Black/Brown/POC have been targeted, tormented, stripped, beaten, brutalized, humiliated, disrespected, raped, murdered and not taking serious. So much that even when we are killed in broad daylight - on camera - in front of others - we still get no justice. • • I am a Black man who graduated from a predominately white institution (PWI) and even went to an all white acting school where I was the ONLY black enrolled full time. Often finding myself having to speak on behalf of other POC. Not every BLACK person is the same. Our stories, cultural practices, language, way of life, complexions etc. vary in multitudes. • • At this Black Lives Matter mural in Brooklyn, NY I wept. I wept for those names that I stood upon realizing that could’ve been me. Painted in the street. Waiting for justice. Another lost life. Another number. Another statistic. Each one of these names were once alive and breathing. With people who loved them. Families. Children. Friends. And that could’ve been me. Doesn’t matter how educated I am. Or how sincere. Or how nice. Because people can’t see that until they get to know me. So what they see is my physical appearance. In which I should NEVER have to alter to make those around me more comfortable. • • Being Black comes with many sorrows but also an abundance of Joy. Shit I’d be mad too if I wasn’t born Black. You cannot come trying to steal our Rhythm and leave out our Blues. • • • 📸: @mr.hollis.king #BlackLivesMatter #Brooklyn #NewYork #Mural #Art #NoJusticeNoPeace #ProtectBlackWomen #Black #Power #Resistance #Shift #TakingBackOurNarrative #CreatingOurOwn #Sustainability #BuyBlack #Community #Culture #RestorationPlaza #SayHerName #SayHisName #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor #JusticeForElijahMcclain #GeorgeFloyd #SeanBell #OscarGrant #MikeBrown #TrayvonMartin #SandraBland #AWJ #Virtus (at Black Lives Matter) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDTq9AogqRn/?igshid=1iprn3btoty3n