I WRITE TO YOU AS A BLACK TEENAGE BOY IN THE YEAR 2020, SCARED AND HURT BY THE SYSTEMIC RACISM THAT STILL LIES WITHIN OUR  INSTITUTIONS. OUR PEOPLE HAVE BLED FOR CIVIL RIGHTS BUT YET HERE WE ARE AGAIN, FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES. “I CAN'T BREATHE” GEORGE FLOYD CRIED, “YOU PROMISED YOU WOULDN’T KILL ME” NATASHA MCKINENNA PLEADED. COUNTLESS LIVES HAVE BEEN STOLEN BY OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM, WE ARE DONE WAITING FOR PEOPLE TO SEE TRUTH, SO WE WILL PROTEST, AND ACCORDING TO THE MEDIA WE WILL “RIOT, LOOT, AND STEAL." 

WE ARE TIRED OF HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF, AND WE ARE TIRED OF BEING MISREPRESENTED. INJUSTICE LIES WITHIN PRIVATE FOR-PROFIT PRISONS AND MASS INCARCERATION, INACCESSIBLE HEALTH CARE FOR LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES, UNDER-PRIVILEGED SCHOOL SYSTEMS, AND ENSLAVEMENT BY POLICE BRUTALITY. OUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS FUND THE DOWNFALL OF BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES.

I PLEAD FOR RATIFICATION OF THE 13TH AMENDMENT, AS SLAVERY SHALL NOT EXIST WITHIN THE UNITED STATES, EVER. OUR PRISONERS ARE NOT SLAVES, THEY ARE HUMANS. MY BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT "RABID ANIMALS" WE ARE HUMANS. GEORGE FLOYD WAS NOT A THUG, HE WAS HUMAN.

I CALL OUT THE SUPREME COURT FOR COMPLETE ABOLISHMENT OF THIS LOOPHOLE, WHICH HAS CONTRIBUTED TO YEARS OF SILENT OPPRESSION DONE BY OUR GOVERNMENT. JOIN THE PETITION, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. BLACK LIVES MATTER.