I admit, I’m tired. Very tired.
Shootings, shootings, shootings…
Aren’t you tired of shootings?
I am.
Very tired.
Our babies are killing each other.
We’ve lost so many youth,
with nothing on the horizon to think,
the trend is going to go in the opposite direction.
The system is doing what it was designed to do.
The historically marginalized have been well trained,
to use a gun to solve their despair.
As though a bullet will make it all go away.
That strategy didn’t work for the colonizers,
and will not work for the colonized either.
P.S. Indigenous and Latinx Fam, this is for you too.
by, Jabali
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