Oct 15, 2020
It’s all “black lives matter” and the ✊🏾 emoji on your profile
It’s all “I can’t breathe” and “xyzcba”
Until it happens in your own goddamn backyard
Until you hear another white kid call the Indigenous girl a gin; and you do nothing
Until someone steals your car, and you blame it on their race
It’s all “justice for George Floyd”
Meanwhile Tanya Day couldn’t breathe, either.
David Dungay Jr.
Joyce Clarke.
The trend has faded, as has much interest.
But our deaths are not a trend.
This is our life. Our day in and day out.
Much love to my fellow BIPOC all around the world
One day our voices will be heard.
