Line of Fire

no justice
no peace

From George Floyd to Breonna Taylor to Sandra Bland to Tamir Rice to Trayvon Martin to Emmett Till.
To more named and even more un-named. Countless the number of strange fruit, seemingly endless the harvest.
The breaking point reach, the strangeness of the fruit means, unlike apples, oranges and that kind of thing, this fruit fights back.

To be black in Amerikkka means to be hunted. Bad boys, good boys, young boys, old boys, it doh matter. Hot gyal, skinny gyal, fat gyal, tall gyal, it doh matter. It doh matter what yuh do. Whatever yuh might be dreaming of, who yuh in love with, who or what yuh sacrificing for, it doh matter. If yuh black you are a threat, and yuh going to be treated as such.

To be black in Amerikkka means to be hunted, today, like it did yesterday, like it will be tomorrow. Is not just Trayvon, not just Emmett. Everytime it happens, again, is never a first time, just a new reminder. Because this happened to your father, and his mother, and her sister and their aunt. Because this is what happens when yuh black. Is always a pressure to either 'áwww shucks, Massa' or 'Fuck you Cracker!'

From the overseer to the patty-roller to the klans men to law men. Generations of black men and women, boys and girls, people, family, murdered in streets and fields and their own homes over and over. One law for the white man and another for the niggers. I hate that word, but how else to put it? That is the treatment we get. We are not treated like people, we are treated like niggers. Like expendable shit. This from a country was built on our backs for free and nothing close to compensation given in return.
Shut the fuck up nigger.
Fuck you nigger.

The time come to stop pussy-footing around this thing. If people can't start treating each other as people this will continue. The institutions in the place built around racism. Inequality, plain and simple. Is not just justice for blood-spilled, but for children starved, and opportunities denied. Every black American problem is not the fault of the system, but the way the system is doh really help yuh get out of yuh problems.
Kapernick could become a multi-milion dollar earning professional athlete and when he try to say something about the reality of being black in Amerikkka the institution rope him in and set his ass aside.
Shut the fuck up nigger.
Fuck you nigger.

I have no idea what the statistics are but I wonder how many out of every ten black men have had 'run-ins' with the police. I wonder what that number is like. Not how many end up in murders or arrests, just how many in general. How many get stopped just going about their daily shit, not doing nothing to nobody, just trying to live. Out of every ten, how many feel hunted?
I live in New York and Miami and felt it both places, more so Miami. Even had my own run in with them, because I 'matched the description of a suspect'. So five of them, while I'm minding my own business, holding bags of my own groceries, four of them pile on top of me and take me down. They drag my head toward the doorway of a food place where my roommate was, I was outside waiting on him after we had make a grocery run. My head right by the door, so he can't push it open to come out, he just have to stay in there and watch, cyah do nothing.
I get a knee on my neck, hands yanked groceries gone all over. A next one on my legs. I can't see what the other two doing. The fifth one is talking to the dispatcher, confirming the description of the suspect, which other than black male, is nothing like me.
Absolutely, fucking nothing.
So they let mih up and mih mouth open. Mih roommate who was in the store I was in front of come outside and he mouth open. It didn't matter that of the two that I couldn't see, one had a gun drawn and the other a taser. Nice.
Shut the fuck up nigger.
They threaten us. Shut the fuck up. This could go a lot worse. Pick up yuh shit, shut the fuck up and go home.
Fuck you nigger.

And so the place will burn.
It will have good people, honest hard-working people who fight hard against the system to build something who will feel the pain of this. That not fair. It not fair that it doh have one face or place to direct the anger and frustration toward. It never ever gets resolved, just simmers up and is either crushed or it simmers down, but never resolved. So the place will burn. I can't judge that. It will sound fucked up, but, Eric Gordon, George Floyd, George Jackson, all the black men and women, feel it. The fear of being hunted.
The police, so many times after a murder of this sort, talk of needing to resort to violence because they were in fear for their lives. In March of this year, Breonna Taylor was shot eight times in her home by officers executing a no-knock warrant. A local investigation resulted in no criminal proceedings against the officers. It is currently being investigated by the FBI.
Philando Castile was shot fives times during a 'routine' traffic stop with his girlfriend and her four year old daughter in the car. That officer was acquitted of all charges.
Who really in the line of fire?
So the place will burn.

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