I Am My Brother -Inspired by a quest for justice, self love, and identity. They see us and stare and try to compare "How on earth could they share the same DNA?" "You're not like them..., " they say; But I am my brother. I am my sister too. The roads that we took were awfully the same. One ended in pleasure, the other in pain. But we share the same blood, the same history; For every life that's destroyed, I think to myself, "that could've been me;" for I am my brother. I am my sister too. I've heard it said by quite a few, "That hoodie you wear doesn't match your IQ." Since when were we judged by the clothes on our backs? Since when does your bias determine my black? My black is your black, like whips on the backs of my ancestry. Legacy born in the shacks of the southern most shores-- created the doors, polished the floors so that we could restore the ties that were broken when black was unspoken. They still look and they s...
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