Dear unborn black son,
Don’t jaywalk.
Don’t eat sandwiches.
Don’t leave the house to go buy Arizona and Skittles.
Don’t leave the house to go buy anything.
Don’t leave the house.
They will kill you.
They will put their dirty shame ridden, melanin-free hands on your radiant bewitchingly brown neck and suffocate you until life is no more.
They will take their black gun and shoot bullets into your black body until your life is no more.
They will kill you.
They will get away with it too.
They’ll shoot you down and then say that it was like a five-year-old wrestling with the hulk.
Dear unborn black son. Dear unborn black daughter. Dear unborn black child.
I love you.
I love you as you are.
I will forever tell you that I love you despite my box of hard black masculinity restraining me from doing so.
When they tell you, when they joke around and call you a nigger, tell them who’s who.
When they touch your curly hair without your permission, tell them who’s who.
When they stop you because of your rap music, tell them who’s who.
When you fit the description, tell them who’s who.
Look that officer in the eye and tell them he fits the description of a klan member riding around with his white male privilege.
Riding around with his white male privilege.
Riding around with his white male privilege.
Riding around with his windows down, looking for the next youth who just happens to be brown.
I can’t breathe.
The system will asphyxiate you.
You will not breathe.
They will go on the news and say that you attacked them.
They will do everything to have the media put your casket behind bars before you’re even buried.
Dear unborn black child,
Don’t be a statistic.
Stay in school and respect your mother.
Pray five times a day.
View all women with utmost respect.
Dear unborn black child,
Tell me your favorite song.
Dear unborn black child,
Tell me your favorite book.
Because if I’ve ever get called that you’ve been slain I will remember you to end my pain.
I will forever play your favorite song until I know every turning syllable and read your favorite book until I can memorize like the Quran
and just to tell you that your black life mattered.
Your black life will matter.
Your black life will matter.
Your black life will matter.
Your black life will not be cut down by jaywalking, by eating a sandwich, by buying an Arizona and Skittles, by leaving the house.
Dear unborn black child,
I love you.
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