Music for the resistance of 2016

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Sitting on a watermelon float drinking a lemonade thinking about surfboarts

I've been thinking about the best way to say my piece on everything that has been going on. I am angry, sad and scared all at once, so here I go: this won't be perfect but it's from the heart. There is a problem in this country. Brown skin automatically makes you a target and a beacon of fear. I can say this because I have lived this. My second week of college I was called a n*gger for standing on a corner. My mom has been accused of attempting to smuggle me in from Dominican Republic when I was a young girl. I have been told I speak like a white girl and that people don't even consider me "black" as if being black is some kind of fucking disease. These are just situations I can account but I CANNOT count the amount of times l've felt like an outsider looking in because of the color of my skin. This is real people. And what I have personally suffered is in no way as traumatic as what my community has suffered. Yes, even people I do not know are considered my community. And guess what, they should be considered yours too. I have seen a lot of my peers say All Lives Matter in an attempt to silence #BlackLivesMatter. I'm not going to get angry here because I am and I was, but I am going to ask you to look deep inside your own anger towards these three words and ask yourself why? Why does it upset you to see us standing up for the black community? We can support all human rights while concentrating on the issue at hand which is the execution of black lives. People being targeted because of the color of their skin. The most common argument is that everyone has suffered discrimination in some way and while yes that may be true, think about this: If you are not brown skinned you can walk around hiding your minority while we get judged and feared just by living black. Instead of saying All Lives Matter + getting angry w the movement, go out and volunteer with a community that is suffering. We need to stand up for each other right now that is what will bring about real change. I love you all and pray that we can find peace as a community of one. 💓 #AltonSterling #PhilandoCastile #SayTheirNames

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I danced ballet for 12 years of my life and always felt like I didn’t belong. My body was weird, my family wasn’t in the right tax bracket, and my stop on the train wasn’t something I was proud of. I admire and pretty much worship Misty Copeland because I imagine what she would have meant to a young me. Thank you Misty for helping people believe they can be anything they set their minds to. You’re a star and an inspiration 🙏🏽

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