The 2016 Black Youth Write! (BYW) is a program aimed at advancing intellect, identity development and literacy proficiency of youth while focusing on reading and writing about Black protest movements from the 1800s to #BlackLivesMatter. Participating youth read rich African American literature and think about their own identities and positions for improving the conditions for humanity.
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Week 2- Public Addresses on the State of Black Lives
"Gravitation is not responsible for falling in love."
Discrimination against a group of people because of who they love is inhumane. Emotions are part of being human. To make somebody control them or put limitations on them is barbaric. LGBT does not pose any threat to our country. So why treat them like they do.
Many other issues still stand relating to LGBT other than gay marriage. For example forty percent of homeless youth identify as LGBT. They have been kicked out by families or feel they are not wanted. Fifty four percent are survivors and abuse victims. Moreover, 68% ran away from bullying and discrimination in their schools and or communities. WHY?
Why treat someone like they don’t matter. The United States is all for equality but were not being equal. Judgement is hiding place for our own insecurities. This is your judgement call don’t let it be run by your vulnerabilities.
Greetings, Brothers and Sisters. I'm glad to have you here. It's great to have you here with me, beautiful even. It's sad to say tat this doesn't happen to often. We, as black people, are stronger than most people think. We are more than entertainment tools. We are beautiful. But what seems to have been forgotten in the world and society, is that we...are...human. And it's because we are human, we shall accept nothing less than human treatment. We have been the skunks of the earth for too long, when we are swans that take a never-ending flight. We will no longer be the sleeping beauty, even if it means being an awake devil. Let knowledge be our savior, unity be our sword and shield, and peace be our driving engine.
My friends, it saddens me to stand in front of you today. For 500 years, segregation has plagued the minds of blacks of all ages. It is commonly thought that segregation is a problem of the past. However it is a very prevalent problem in today’s society. Have you ever been treated differently? Of course nobody gets treated the same. However the treatment of blacks is vastly different. Hence, it is detrimental to growth and development of black people. If I asked you what Jim Crow laws are, almost if not all of you would be able to answer. However, much like Jim Crow laws of the ‘past’, if I asked you what is the school to prison pipeline there would be answers few and far in-between. If I asked you how many years slavery has been in America there would be a healthy amount of answers. However if I asked you the rate of which black people are incarcerated today would you be able to tell me that per 100,000 thousand people blacks are more than 5 times more likely to be arrested? I thought segregation was separation some may ask, however segregation is more than keeping a group of people apart. Segregation is in the mind, this unsaid idea as if blacks are, ‘quote unquote’, lesser then other races, and shouldn’t be given opportunities that other races have. This idea of whiteness, ties in perfectly to segregation. Segregation is more of a justification, because well these lives are just black. They don’t matter much. Which is why it is perfectly fine for black males to be 9 times more likely to be shot by police. Segregation is the justification for all these things. Seeing a group of people as different or lesser justifies these actions. If people of every race started considering blacks as human beings rather than being different, then overall treatment of blacks as a whole can and WILL improve. Thank you.
Is Appropriation Right by Sister Author 7 What if the hair style that you wore as a child suddenly became chic? Well this is happening to the black community. White people have been taking things from us from the beginning of time. And know they have taken something they once ridiculed. As Jesse Williams said, "whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil – black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit." He is completely right. But, why? Why has it become suddenly desirable? I believe it is because recently we have all been more excepting of our looks, and even loving ourselves. But some might say that even we appropriate white culture. The culture that was forced upon us for hundreds of years. So I ask, who is wrong?
In black communities many social injuries happen and are kept sealed away. Serious issues gone ignored unaddressed, causes victims to be afraid to stand up for themselves; fearing the judgement for their close ones. This is not a minor problem but one of great magnitude. Over the past 6 years, on average 24,730 black women has experienced form of sexual assault or a complete form of rape at point in their life. While white women are being raped at a far less number. Black women lives are more harmed and silently pleading for help. Many researchers have said that rape is a bequeathed by the legacy of white terror. Instead of shutting up, stand up !
My dear friends, I find that this is my duty to address you about something that is not only urgent, but something that is also dear to my heart. Not about a public issue, but a world wide issue. This issue is the way black lives are treated. How could you stand there and watch a black get shot and say nothing? How could you watch a young black girl get raped and say nothing? How could you watch the school system down blacks and say nothing? How do you watch black people suffer by their oppression and say nothing? Silence is violence. And violence is not right.
BRUTALITY IS BRUTAL. MORE BLACK AND LATINA PEOPLE AND OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE BEING SHOT WHO ARE UNARMED, AND WHO HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING WRONG. POLICE HAVE BEEN UPSETING TO BLACK WOMEN ALSO. THE SOUTH CAROLINA GIRL FOR EXAMPLE. SHE REFUSED TO GET OUT OF HER SCHOOL CHAIR PEACFULY AND THEN THE POLICE CAME AND STARTED THROUGHING HER AROUND LIKE SHE WAS TRASH!THIS WAS SO UNREASONABLE! FURTHERMORE, UNDERAGE BLACK WOMEN HAVE BEEN BEING RAPED BY WHITE MEN AND SOME HAVE CLAIMED RAPINGS FROM 'HOLZCLAW'. THIS IS HORRIBLE BECAUSE THE WOMEN COULD GET HURT AND GET PREGNAT AT A VERY YOUNG AGE. IF BRUTALITY TOWARDS BLACK PEOPLE STOPS, THEN WE CAN PREVENT INEQUALITY.
Rape?Taken?Kidnapped? These are problems that happen often in our society. It is called sec trafficking and has happened to many black children of various ages. Sex trafficking is a form of modern day slavery throughout the Unites States and globally. In the United States sex trafficking is ranked #1 in the terms of the number of youth being kidnapped, enslaved, and raped. This crime against humanity will continue to grow unless we come together and put an end to this crime. So , let's come together and stop our black males and females from getting taken from their families, and from being stripped at their identities, from older men and women who are the main causes of sex trafficking.
I say lol and don't mean it in a texting term . I mean it in a very serious important issue . Lots of people take this issue very seriously . OH!! I didn't tell you what it means . It means the LACK OF LOVE . This is not just a problem that goes on with certain people. It goes on with everybody in the world and everywhere in the world . I feel that most people try to kill or hurt there selves because they are hurt or they don't feel loved how they should . Most people be crazy in love with people and most of the people didn't feel they same way . So they try t hurt they selves or kill they selves .
DEAR SISTERS OF THE BLACK SOCIETY, MOST PEOPLE SAY CHILDREN ARE KIDNAPPED BECAUSE KIDNAPPERS SEER MONEY. OTHERS SAYS THEY DO IT FOR MERE FUN. MANY CHILDREN OF DIFFRENT RACES GET KINAPPED EVERYDAY. WHITES , BLACKS , AND EVEN ASIANS , YET THE STORY IS TOLD OR UNTOLD QUITE DIFFRENTLY AMONG CERTAIN RACES. MY POINT IS , WHY WOULD THR RACE OF A MISSING CHILDREN MATTER? WHEN A WHILE YOUNG SISTER GOES MISSING ITS " AMBER ALERY , MISSING CHILD". BUT WHEN A BLACK YOUNG SISTER GOES MISSING ALL YOU HEAR IS CRICKETS... SILENTS. NOBODY CARES. I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW A RACE HUMANITY CAN EFFECT CHILD IN ANY BAD OR ANY WAY. PEOPLE NEED MORE AWARE WHEN A BLACK YOUNG GOES MISSING. BLACKS HAD HELP US DURING THE PASS , AND PRESENT DAYS. WHAT IF WE DIDNT HAVE THEM ? WOULD WE STILL PEACE, HAVE FOOD FOR THE CHILFREN THAT ARE BORN ECERYDAY. WE NEED TO BE MOR AWARE SO SIT DOWN... AND KEEP YOUR EYES WIDE OPEN ON OUR SOCIETY.
Brothers and sisters, why did we treat each other so unfair? why do we still do ? Is it maybe jealously ? These are the questions that should go through your mind, that should keep you in profound thought. as you know, a little, or maybe a lot of the past;Black Americans were treated worthless. They use to get judged based on their looks or colorism. There were black Americans who would get used. Used as tourture from someone higher than the person, mistreated or sexually assult far as the black woman bodies.There were men that took a little girls virginity away. Woman were force into that. They couldn't do anything but go with the flow. Blacks were treated so unfairly. The men also were no different from how the woman was but there were certain things men wouldn't do to another man. We as sisters and brothers must make a change. NOW ! NOT later...NOW ! We need to come together as one and show that we care without any negativity.
gun law by: sister author 9 how you doing brother and sister authors did you know that gun laws in the united states regulate the sale, possession, and used of firearms and ammunition basically what that means is that (control or maintain the sale and possession and used of a portal gun and a bullet in a shell you probably didn't know that is why in this public address I will be talk more about gun law.) the relationship between access to handguns and gun control laws are not the same because a handgun can be designed for anybody to hold to also shoot anybody they will like and a gun and it has to be bought if it is not bought that means you are disobeying the laws they do not have a relationship.
Loving Weapons by Brother Author 12 Greetings, Brothers and Sisters. I'm glad to have you here. It's great to have you here with me, beautiful even. It's sad to say that this doesn't happen to often. We, as black people, are stronger than most people think. We are more than entertainment tools. We are beautiful. But what seems to have been forgotten in the world and society, is that we...are...human. And it's because we are human, we shall accept nothing less than humane treatment. We have been the skunks of the earth for too long, when we are swans that take a never-ending flight. We will no longer be the sleeping beauty, even if it means being the awake devil. Let knowledge be our savior, unity be our sword and shield, and peace be our driving engine.
Improvement by BA 4 We improve the state of black lives by stepping up to the plate. We show that we will not back down even if it kills us. We protest, write, speak, physically fight, anything it takes. We don’t want much, we just want to be treated fairly. You can’t give us bits and pieces, and then think we DON”T see what is being held from us. We just want equality, is that too much to ask?
"Gravitation is not responsible for falling in love."
ReplyDeleteDiscrimination against a group of people because of who they love is inhumane. Emotions are part of being human. To make somebody control them or put limitations on them is barbaric. LGBT does not pose any threat to our country. So why treat them like they do.
Many other issues still stand relating to LGBT other than gay marriage. For example forty percent of homeless youth identify as LGBT. They have been kicked out by families or feel they are not wanted. Fifty four percent are survivors and abuse victims. Moreover, 68% ran away from bullying and discrimination in their schools and or communities. WHY?
Why treat someone like they don’t matter. The United States is all for equality but were not being equal. Judgement is hiding place for our own insecurities. This is your judgement call don’t let it be run by your vulnerabilities.
Greetings, Brothers and Sisters. I'm glad to have you here. It's great to have you here with me, beautiful even. It's sad to say tat this doesn't happen to often. We, as black people, are stronger than most people think. We are more than entertainment tools. We are beautiful. But what seems to have been forgotten in the world and society, is that we...are...human. And it's because we are human, we shall accept nothing less than human treatment. We have been the skunks of the earth for too long, when we are swans that take a never-ending flight. We will no longer be the sleeping beauty, even if it means being an awake devil. Let knowledge be our savior, unity be our sword and shield, and peace be our driving engine.
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ReplyDeleteMy friends, it saddens me to stand in front of you today. For 500 years, segregation has plagued the minds of blacks of all ages. It is commonly thought that segregation is a problem of the past. However it is a very prevalent problem in today’s society. Have you ever been treated differently? Of course nobody gets treated the same. However the treatment of blacks is vastly different. Hence, it is detrimental to growth and development of black people. If I asked you what Jim Crow laws are, almost if not all of you would be able to answer. However, much like Jim Crow laws of the ‘past’, if I asked you what is the school to prison pipeline there would be answers few and far in-between. If I asked you how many years slavery has been in America there would be a healthy amount of answers. However if I asked you the rate of which black people are incarcerated today would you be able to tell me that per 100,000 thousand people blacks are more than 5 times more likely to be arrested? I thought segregation was separation some may ask, however segregation is more than keeping a group of people apart. Segregation is in the mind, this unsaid idea as if blacks are, ‘quote unquote’, lesser then other races, and shouldn’t be given opportunities that other races have. This idea of whiteness, ties in perfectly to segregation. Segregation is more of a justification, because well these lives are just black. They don’t matter much. Which is why it is perfectly fine for black males to be 9 times more likely to be shot by police. Segregation is the justification for all these things. Seeing a group of people as different or lesser justifies these actions. If people of every race started considering blacks as human beings rather than being different, then overall treatment of blacks as a whole can and WILL improve. Thank you.
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ReplyDeleteWhat if the hair style that you wore as a child suddenly became chic? Well this is happening to the black community. White people have been taking things from us from the beginning of time. And know they have taken something they once ridiculed. As Jesse Williams said, "whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil – black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit." He is completely right. But, why? Why has it become suddenly desirable? I believe it is because recently we have all been more excepting of our looks, and even loving ourselves. But some might say that even we appropriate white culture. The culture that was forced upon us for hundreds of years. So I ask, who is wrong?
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ReplyDeleteIn black communities many social injuries happen and are kept sealed away. Serious issues gone ignored unaddressed, causes victims to be afraid to stand up for themselves; fearing the judgement for their close ones. This is not a minor problem but one of great magnitude. Over the past 6 years, on average 24,730 black women has experienced form of sexual assault or a complete form of rape at point in their life. While white women are being raped at a far less number. Black women lives are more harmed and silently pleading for help. Many researchers have said that rape is a bequeathed by the legacy of white terror. Instead of shutting up, stand up !
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ReplyDeleteMy dear friends, I find that this is my duty to address you about something that is not only urgent, but something that is also dear to my heart. Not about a public issue, but a world wide issue. This issue is the way black lives are treated. How could you stand there and watch a black get shot and say nothing? How could you watch a young black girl get raped and say nothing? How could you watch the school system down blacks and say nothing? How do you watch black people suffer by their oppression and say nothing? Silence is violence. And violence is not right.
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MORE BLACK AND LATINA PEOPLE AND OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE BEING SHOT WHO ARE UNARMED, AND WHO HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING WRONG. POLICE HAVE BEEN UPSETING TO BLACK WOMEN ALSO. THE SOUTH CAROLINA GIRL FOR EXAMPLE. SHE REFUSED TO GET OUT OF HER SCHOOL CHAIR PEACFULY AND THEN THE POLICE CAME AND STARTED THROUGHING HER AROUND LIKE SHE WAS TRASH!THIS WAS SO UNREASONABLE! FURTHERMORE, UNDERAGE BLACK WOMEN HAVE BEEN BEING RAPED BY WHITE MEN AND SOME HAVE CLAIMED RAPINGS FROM 'HOLZCLAW'. THIS IS HORRIBLE BECAUSE THE WOMEN COULD GET HURT AND GET PREGNAT AT A VERY YOUNG AGE. IF BRUTALITY TOWARDS BLACK PEOPLE STOPS, THEN WE CAN PREVENT INEQUALITY.
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ReplyDeleteRape?Taken?Kidnapped? These are problems that happen often in our society. It is called sec trafficking and has happened to many black children of various ages. Sex trafficking is a form of modern day slavery throughout the Unites States and globally. In the United States sex trafficking is ranked #1 in the terms of the number of youth being kidnapped, enslaved, and raped. This crime against humanity will continue to grow unless we come together and put an end to this crime. So , let's come together and stop our black males and females from getting taken from their families, and from being stripped at their identities, from older men and women who are the main causes of sex trafficking.
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I say lol and don't mean it in a texting term . I mean it in a very serious important issue . Lots of people take this issue very seriously . OH!! I didn't tell you what it means . It means the LACK OF LOVE . This is not just a problem that goes on with certain people. It goes on with everybody in the world and everywhere in the world . I feel that most people try to kill or hurt there selves because they are hurt or they don't feel loved how they should . Most people be crazy in love with people and most of the people didn't feel they same way . So they try t hurt they selves or kill they selves .
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ReplyDeleteDEAR SISTERS OF THE BLACK SOCIETY,
MOST PEOPLE SAY CHILDREN ARE KIDNAPPED BECAUSE KIDNAPPERS SEER MONEY. OTHERS SAYS THEY DO IT FOR MERE FUN. MANY CHILDREN OF DIFFRENT RACES GET KINAPPED EVERYDAY. WHITES , BLACKS , AND EVEN ASIANS , YET THE STORY IS TOLD OR UNTOLD QUITE DIFFRENTLY AMONG CERTAIN RACES. MY POINT IS , WHY WOULD THR RACE OF A MISSING CHILDREN MATTER? WHEN A WHILE YOUNG SISTER GOES MISSING ITS " AMBER ALERY , MISSING CHILD". BUT WHEN A BLACK YOUNG SISTER GOES MISSING ALL YOU HEAR IS CRICKETS... SILENTS. NOBODY CARES. I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW A RACE HUMANITY CAN EFFECT CHILD IN ANY BAD OR ANY WAY. PEOPLE NEED MORE AWARE WHEN A BLACK YOUNG GOES MISSING. BLACKS HAD HELP US DURING THE PASS , AND PRESENT DAYS. WHAT IF WE DIDNT HAVE THEM ? WOULD WE STILL PEACE, HAVE FOOD FOR THE CHILFREN THAT ARE BORN ECERYDAY. WE NEED TO BE MOR AWARE SO SIT DOWN... AND KEEP YOUR EYES WIDE OPEN ON OUR SOCIETY.
Being Mistreated By: Sister Author 8
ReplyDeleteBrothers and sisters, why did we treat each other so unfair? why do we still do ? Is it maybe jealously ? These are the questions that should go through your mind, that should keep you in profound thought. as you know, a little, or maybe a lot of the past;Black Americans were treated worthless. They use to get judged based on their looks or colorism. There were black Americans who would get used. Used as tourture from someone higher than the person, mistreated or sexually assult far as the black woman bodies.There were men that took a little girls virginity away. Woman were force into that. They couldn't do anything but go with the flow. Blacks were treated so unfairly. The men also were no different from how the woman was but there were certain things men wouldn't do to another man. We as sisters and brothers must make a change. NOW ! NOT later...NOW ! We need to come together as one and show that we care without any negativity.
gun law by: sister author 9
ReplyDeletehow you doing brother and sister authors did you know that gun laws in the united states regulate the sale, possession, and used of firearms and ammunition basically what that means is that (control or maintain the sale and possession and used of a portal gun and a bullet in a shell you probably didn't know that is why in this public address I will be talk more about gun law.) the relationship between access to handguns and gun control laws are not the same because a handgun can be designed for anybody to hold to also shoot anybody they will like and a gun and it has to be bought if it is not bought that means you are disobeying the laws they do not have a relationship.
Loving Weapons by Brother Author 12
ReplyDeleteGreetings, Brothers and Sisters. I'm glad to have you here. It's great to have you here with me, beautiful even. It's sad to say that this doesn't happen to often. We, as black people, are stronger than most people think. We are more than entertainment tools. We are beautiful. But what seems to have been forgotten in the world and society, is that we...are...human. And it's because we are human, we shall accept nothing less than humane treatment. We have been the skunks of the earth for too long, when we are swans that take a never-ending flight. We will no longer be the sleeping beauty, even if it means being the awake devil. Let knowledge be our savior, unity be our sword and shield, and peace be our driving engine.
Improvement by BA 4
ReplyDeleteWe improve the state of black lives by stepping up to the plate. We show that we will not back down even if it kills us. We protest, write, speak, physically fight, anything it takes. We don’t want much, we just want to be treated fairly. You can’t give us bits and pieces, and then think we DON”T see what is being held from us. We just want equality, is that too much to ask?