There is an early and sudden death that awaits us.

It can come from the police, the road-raging vigilante, or the fool from down the street with a beef.

Our name will be a hashtag, and justice will not come.

We will be told that our minds and bodies are the problem. We will be told that our bodies deserve death because our culture is a problem. We will be tone-policed, gaslighted and denied legitimacy in our rage.

We’re supposed to kiss the asses of the comfortable, to not “erase the history” of the oppressor, to be grateful for basic ethical behavior.

Maybe if we disappeared from this country, if we dispersed from these shores to diaspora far afield, the insults to our intelligence will stop. Maybe the insulting injustice will stop.

To see the day when we’ll stop being the red-headed bastard child who is hated when defiant but idolized when dead. I look forward to this.

#WalterScott #JoeMcKnight