This Is America

This is America
    Where you can be "Judged by the color of your skin, but not by the content of your character."
This is America
    Where it is a decision to be made whether you want to fight peacefully or fight violently.
This is America
    Where little boys with pigment in their skin have to be taught silly but necessary things like, "Put your hands on the dash, don't talk back, don't ask why, don't resist, yes sir's and no sir's, don't reach for anything, drop your location as soon as you see the lights, if they tell you to do something do it. Matter fact just don't drive."
This is America
    Where an officer can have 12 police brutality complaints against him, kill a man, and only be charged with manslaughter
This is America
    Where we fight for equity over equality
This is America
    Where the very people that work for us and that we pay to work, we are paying to kill us.
This is America
    Where we have to be afraid to send our kids with the pigment in their skin out into the world
This is America
    Where we are just simply afraid for their lives. Not just our little boys, our little girls too.
This is America
    Where I have to be afraid of what I say, what I do, and most of all, I have to be afraid of the color of my skin because they are.
This is America
    Where we're damned if we do and damned if we don't
This. Is. America