Feel free to ignore my rambling below and just enjoy this free track by Third Root and Bavu Blakes...
Honestly, I've been too upset about this Trayvon Martin killing to speak on it. It's so much more to this kind of thing. On one hand, it doesn't even surprise me... America seems to enjoy sending the message that black lives are basically worthless, so here we go again. On the other hand, everyone is quick to jump out and use the viral uproar to promote their own political agendas or pet causes while our emotions are raw and we are willing to listen... The opportunism is itself enough to make me so mad I don't know what to say...
I'll just continue to follow the story and pray for... what? Trayvon's gone... so there's no happy ending coming, that's for sure. I don't know if there will even be any justice in this case either. Just the fact that it went down like it did so far goes to show that the system is
- The left is blaming the right for racist attitudes and proliferation of loose gun laws.
- The right is accusing the left of race-baiting.
- White people are claiming race has nothing to do with it.
- Black folks
think weknow better. - Every now and then, someone blames hip hop.
sigh...
I have had cops and good ole boys points guns at me more than once because I looked "dangerous" or "suspicious"... Thank God they didn't squeeze on me. The thought of my mom crying over my grave and people kicking dirt on my name the way they are doing with Trayvon makes me tear up. Not for me (I'd be beyond caring then) but for my mom. She worked hard to raise me... she doesn't deserve that. I see my mom in the tired and determined faces of Trayvon's parents. They don't deserve this, either. But like my mom would, they are fighting the good fight. They just want Justice.
We'll see...
-samax.
