Why?

We live in a nation, where people they praise corporations.

And immigrants hate immigration, although immigrants they build this nation.

We live in a nation where the United States they are divided.

And people are never united, cause some people want to stay divided.

We live in a nation where people they hate oppression, so they go out and they riot and they get praised by their nation.

And if you follow, but suffer from melanation, although you truly deal with oppression, then you are shot by your nation.

We live in a nation where for one event is never forget.

And if the other event you try to mention, the means you’re stuck in the past, and because of that as a nation we can’t ever progress.

~KC

The image cover for this poem comes from Jahi Chikwendiu series titled “CHOKEHOLD”.

“I keep hope, but I have lost all faith that this country will ever appreciably cleanse itself of deeply entrenched racism. Its barrage is constant and unavoidable warfare”. That’s how Chikwendiu starts his conversation on the series, which is exactly what captivated me.