SCARED TO HAVE BROWN BODIES I
t’s scary times. The United States is looking at one of the most shocking times throughout its history. We’ve broken records in job loss and unemployment filing; domestic abuse reports have skyrocketed; businesses are shutting their doors forever, because of a virus. However, the statistics that creep me out the most are the ones tied to the number of brown bodies that have been laid to rest. The extent to which brown bodies have been being killed these past few months is...I honestly don’t even have a word for it.
42 THE SQUEEZE SPRING 2020
It’s, literally, impossible to accurately describe how it feels to fear for your life on a daily basis because of the pigmentation of your skin. It’s impossible to give a definition to the chills that come up when walking past a cop car while Black. Even if I were able to describe that feeling, if you don’t look like me, you couldn’t begin to relate and barely understand. With the times that we’re in, you would think that color wouldn’t be a factor. You would think the messages being spread throughout the country of “everyone
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