The Hopeless Race

By Imani Johnson - June 18, 2015

We as blacks have this constant feeling of hopelessness. 

This hopelessness is fueled by all the things we believe we can not do out of fear of being harmed or discriminated against. 

This hopelessness is nothing new.

The inferiority has been present before blacks even came to America. I would argue it began with the colonial exploration, exploitation, and colonization of Africa. And now many years later we still feel hopeless. 

A white person kills an unarmed black person and is considered not guilty. A white person harasses, antagonizes, or harms another black person and is given a slap on the wrist. 

It happens so often it comes to the point of what are we as black people going to do that we haven't already done before.

We become hopeless, we are the hopeless race. 

Whenever we see white people in magazines, the media, a movie it becomes a game of  "Spot the Black Person" trying to see how many we can find compared to the many white faces we see.
When we black people are finally in the media it is rarely for anything good (unless it's sports).
We feel hopeless, is there ever going to be an adequate representation of our race?

Some of us are just trying to get out of poverty, out of the ghetto, but that doesn't even seem fathomable. Especially so when it seems like the world is against us. 

We as blacks are the hopeless race. 
Not to be mistaken for helpless.
We as blacks emotionally have no hope. 

And after generations of repression and generations of that feeling of hopelessness being passed what are we to do?

How long must we fight for something as simple as the color of our skin?




The Outfit:
Crochet Crop top: Made by me
Shorts: Thrift
Shoes: TjMaxx
Necklace: Khols (Old)
Lipstick: Melt cosmetics

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