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A Letter To My Black American Brothers
Let’s write our own history!
Dear Black Man:
If no one has told you, I love you.
It feels like a war has been waged against us. We’re subjected to the black death of our fellow brothers on videos that get shared as casually as a dance on Tik Tok.
Given everything that’s going on in the world, it’s okay not be okay. As African American men, we’ve been taught to now show emotions, and that that somehow makes us weak. Now is not the time for that.
We should be mad as hell right now, and we have every reason to be. We’re being killed and incarcerated at higher rates than any other groups in America. There is a clear attack against us right now, that is always existed, but is now at the forefront for the world to see, again.
We’re in this together.
The Black American experience is unique and is not comparable to any other human experience. No other group of people will ever quite understand our journey. If any real change is to occur in the black community, the change will have to start with us, as black men.
We owe it to ourselves and our communities to operate on a code of conduct when it comes to dealing with our fellow black brothers. In America we are public enemy number one…
