Day 19: There is no person I want to honor today sorry if you were expecting a person or something educational. I just wanted to write my thoughts today because I was thinking about black innocence and I feel like white America loves to rape the innocence of black children. When people talk about racism they never talk about the little things like the luxury and the freedom to just be. White children have always had the freedom to just be, then they grow up to be adults with the freedom to just exist in their own skin. Some black children are not that lucky, Ota Benga was stolen from his home at 14 and forced to be displayed at the Bronx zoo while white people gathered and laughed at the display of a "monkey" they even sharpened his teeth so he can look more like a cannibal. Emmett Till was 14 when he was lynched, dragged from his home and tied up he was shot and shoved into the water with a cotton gin tied around his body he was so unrecognizable that if it wasn't for a ring on his finger his mother wouldn't recognize him. Can you imagine the work that has been done to his body so much so that he wasn't recognizable? That his mother wanted an open casket to show the world what they do to black people, to black children how it wasn't until years later while the white lady was on her deathbed that she actually told to truth that Emmett didn't actually flirt with her. Don't you remember that there was no uproar, nobody did anything. There was no apology to anyone. On November 3,2020, a 15 year old boy named Quawan "Bobby" charles was found in a body bag with mutilated body parts face down in a sugar cane field and authorities said he "drowned" yet the water was ankle deep. What a luxury it is to just be, to just live, to just be a black child in America and not have to worry about death, to just be soft, to cry, to be innocent and have others believe it too.

P.s. Tomorrow we'll talk about a person sorry i just wanted to get my thoughts out