One Nation T. W

I can’t breathe as he saw light coming towards him slowly and then Lights out. It’s just crazy how the world can change easily but I live on the east side so how did the west side get the east involved in this? “BOOOOM,” a firework goes sounds like a building fell, Another store goes up in flames. I can smell it from a far distance, it smells like a volcano erupting. The damage they’ve done to that useful store in anger. Didn’t they think about the Minnesotans that need these stores in this Covid crisis? I thought the police are supposed to protect and serve not cause conflict and God only knows what they’re doing is not right. “I can’t breathe,” they’ll chant during peaceful protests and not so peaceful protests. It’s that racism, why us African Americans are supposedly suspicious when we’re trying go by our days and why we are being watched as we go into areas. It’s that racism, while the others that are not our complexion get the opposite attention that we African Americans don’t get. So, all I wanted to say is what happened to living in one nation, what happened to equality, and what to peace and harmony, what happened to that? We all can’t wait until we can finally live in equality, in “one nation. ” Well, it will be one looooooooong time before we have equality in America. It’s a tough life when you’re African American in America. Good luck living in this “one nation” of America.

All of us African Americans can’t wait until we can finally really say, “we’re free at last.

T. W., Grade 7 Community of Peace Academy, Saint Paul Teaching Artist, Frank Sentwali