SAY NOTHING

SAY NOTHING

Say nothing

We have no business acknowledging

Shedding light

Asking for what is right

No basic human right

To voice what has occurred

About anything

Large or small

Illogical

Trust

We do not want to HAVE TO speak about this.

Trust

We DO NOT WANT TO LIVE THROUGH IT, day to day. If we survive it.

Trust

We do not wish to have to fight to defend ourselves, to be seen heard to be left alone or treated, as ANYONE would want to be treated. To not be judged and not have the most negative assumptions made about us, without knowing who we are as an individual, as a human being

It is exhausting

A realm of disbelief

What is the need to look at another person and not see human?

Not see the same that makes a human being, just that.

The shell is a different

Different colors (some as light as or lighter than yours to darkest shades and everything in between)

With embedded with different designs (features)

But say nothing

If your father is detained and humiliated and spoken to like a child and escalates to being berated and treated as if, he is the most despicable creature on this planet.

Say nothing

If your uncle is in the military has several men restraining him, and he is being choked, beaten…begging for mercy and medical assistance and eventually stops talking and all that is heard and seen is a struggle to live, to breath and eventually there is a wheezing sound, small spurts of air, the eyes are half closed and rolled back and the body no longer struggling against restraint, and no care is provided... all on camera, as if watching a favorite movie.

Say nothing

If your son is followed, beaten, chased, shot in the back, say nothing

If your loved one was gun down with many others, in premeditated act in a church, by the very person who they tried to help and prayed with…and who was peacefully led away in handcuffs and provided a meal at a fast food restaurant on the way to jail.

Say nothing

If your son is sitting in a car, doing nothing and has nothing resembling a threat and is shot numerous times at close range, say nothing

If your daughter has lighter fluid and matches thrown on her by a group of "citizens", while sitting in her own car minding her business, say nothing

If your mother is beaten and raped, say nothing

If your son is beaten, humiliated, and raped with a baton, that was said to have accidentally slipped into…

Say nothing

If your daughter is snatched off a bike and thrown against a police car, and forever shattered, say nothing

If your children are berated by adults and man-handled by police at a public pool in their swimsuits, say nothing

If your father is tied to a truck by a rope and dragged for miles, say nothing

If a group of you create successful towns during challenging times, full of homes, stores, banks, schools, a medical facility, businesses, and you are off to yourselves and not bothering anyone, and it us decided to come into those towns, rape, beat, kill and burn the place down. Repeatedly.

Say nothing

If a home for boys that should be of service to the community, has its doors and windows blocked and is set on fire with boys in it.

Say nothing

If a little girl in elementary school is bullied in school because of her skin and is encouraged to kill herself and she eventually does, say nothing

If a mother spends her waking days in worry and distress every time her children leaves the house

If a father lives in a world of pain, distrust, worry and on the ready to protect every time his family leaves his sight

If your grandma is repeatedly punched as if, she is in the ring with a heavy weight fighter… a man, an officer of the law, in broad daylight on the side of busy freeway…say nothing

She deserved it

They all deserved it

We deserve it

We will continue to deserve it

Stay silent and take it? You do not deserve to discuss or speak up, to want relief, justice or simply for it to stop. Shut up until you are completely fractured, broken, disoriented, in fear, complacent, accepting until you all no longer exist. It that what is preferred? Or does it make you happy and feel superior, intelligent, strong, loving, and Christian-like to have a whipping board “population” to react on, whenever you fancy?

That is what slavery was for and should have done.

Should have completely broken us

Expired us

Every mindset, action, system, law after that was implemented, due to the color of one’s skin, was to restrict, oppress, eliminate

You want to continue to pretend to have an abnormal misunderstanding, and justify an irrational fear, and declare that this fixation of cruelty on an entire group of people, is normal and should be understood and accepted by all; including those who suffer at the hands of it…for centuries past and centuries to come. Is this not utterly insane?

Tell me why

If the situations are reversed, do you deserve it? Does YOUR grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, child, grandchild deserve it? The actions, the crimes were perpetrated upon them because of their WHITE skin. No other reason. They would deserve it, as well…right?

Tell me that this would be perfectly fine with you and that you would say and do absolutely nothing. Ever.

You too, should say and do, absolutely nothing

Say nothing

Kimberly Storm Edge

6-26-20