Why Can’t You See Our Humanity?
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Langston Hughes @langston_poems
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I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
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I came back home last night, turned on the TV, and saw the news that there would be no indictment in the murder of Michael Brown. I remember falling to my knees and crying with one thought playing over and over in my head: “We are human. We are flesh and blood. We are human and they can’t even see it.”
Black people get up everyday and contribute to the prosperity of this society. We are children, we are teenagers, we are parents, we are students, we are business owners, we are doctors, we are lawyers, we are everything A to Z. We are human. Yet everyday you are killing us. You are killing our children, you are killing our brothers, you are killing our sisters, you are killing our parents. A Black person gets stopped by the cops and shakes in fear, trembles with fear that he or she makes it home alive. Your white parent, child, brother, or sister will never know this fear but every Black person knows that fear or will experience it. This is a horror in a country that calls itself exceptional. A Black man or woman walks out the door, comes back home, and looks to the heavens, thinking “thank God, I lived today.” This is a scourge in a country that proclaims to be great.
I continue to look forward to the day when the lines “all men are created equal” and “with liberty and justice for all” will become reality and not some refrain we toss around. I continue to look forward to the day when society recognizes our humanity. And as always, we carry on.
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Joy
Good morning all. I rarely post but I had to this morning. As you see I live in Barbados but I am Jamaican and am therefore a West Indian. Why is this significant because I have two sisters and a brother in the US one sister who lives in New York has a son who is twenty years old and I have numerous friends from the West Indies with sons who live in various parts of the US. I cried last night when I heard the outcome. I cried for them. I often call my sister and remind her to speak to her son. He is a regular 20 year old, he goes to college, he wears his cap backwards, he goes to the cinema with his friend, he does the things that you would expect them to do at that age. When I read of these killings my heart hurts for all young men in the US who may not grow up to live their dreams. What next?
Matt Novak @paleofuture
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We only have the language of dystopian fiction to describe these images yet they'd play as too heavy handed on screen
11:58 PM - 24 Nov 2014
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/11/25/why-cant-you-see-our-humanity/
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Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
As for seeing other People's Humanity.. There be monsters among us, she.. that's hard to even fathom.
But, beautiful caring people too.. all across this world..
USA TODAY ✔ @USATODAY
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Across the USA, more demonstrations are planned to protest the #FergusonDecision: http://usat.ly/1roQwdc
7:52 AM - 25 Nov 2014 710 Retweets 323 favorites
The Crisis Magazine @thecrisismag
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France's black justice minister slams #US police killings #FergusonDecision
http://bit.ly/1vJitTp pic.twitter.com/trstqN1hCJ @WhiteHouse
2:14 PM - 25 Nov 2014 Boston, MA, United States 197 Retweets 92 favorites
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/11/25/a-tweet-or-two-177/
Michael Brown
with those who fancy themselves Darren"I wouldn't do anything different"Wilson.
Michael Brown
That's what autocorrect keeps telling me it should say. We all need some good laughs sheeted. Oops, I mean sheshe2!! 
And yes I need that, lovemydog 