BORN BLACK, SENTENCED BY SKIN 

Our skin is not a sentence

This piece of writing is dedicated to "RACISM."

How the law, and the direct murder of innocent people, has taken them away from their loved ones because of their skin tone or race. Or rather, should I say, how they have been neglected.

Racism has now become something we shouldn't ignore. It's high time we find justice for ourselves. So many people out there have died due to negligence, or should I say, been wrongly accused just because of their skin tone or race.

Racism dates back to the years (1500s - 1800s), and till date, Black people are trafficked and enslaved. This was the part where slavery came in. Over 12+ million Africans were taken in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Over 2 million died on the ship at sea alone, due to neglect and starvation.

In America, enslaved people were beaten, starved, and worked to death due to negligence and lack of medical attention, just because of their skin tone or race. We were seen as animals, or rather monkeys, to do their dirty jobs.

Let's not forget genocides caused by racism, like the Rwandan Genocide in "1994." The Hutu extremists killed 800,000 Tutsi people in 100 days because of ethnic hatred.

Let's also not forget about 15-year-old Javits Badu Nkansah Frimpong, whose life was cut short after a year in America because he was being bullied, maybe because of his skin tone or race. But that was uncalled for. That was murder. He was an innocent Ghanaian who just wanted a brighter future.

He deserves justice, and it should be well served. His killers need to be found. Not that alone, racists at large should be prosecuted for murder, abuse, slavery, or any form of bad movement against coloured people. This should be taken seriously.

We are not different. We are humans too. We want to be seen too. We want to be loved, not hated, because our skin tone says otherwise.

We will not be quiet. Justice for us.

They taught us to hate, then blamed us for bleeding. Now, we demand justice. Justice for Black Lives. Our skin is not a sentence. Justice delayed is justice denied. Stop killing our future.

We are not asking, we are demanding.