Black people

 Black people 

Y’all don’t have to be strong 

All the time….

There’s no need…

Sometimes 

Y’all need to break down 

And have the best cry….

Y’all need to be reminded 

That y’all are still human….

It’s ok to rest…

To sit still…

To breathe….

We’re tired…

The systematic racism 

Keep encouragin us 

To be animals 

To be robots

And we ain’t them….

Black community 

I’m aware that 

We don’t usually talk 

About mental illness…

But trauma shows up in our faces 

All the time…

We have to speak on it…

There’s no need to shush….

Honestly 

Our own black pain leads us 

To dangerous zones 

To destruction 

I know white supremacy has invented 

This way…

This way of damagin ourselves 

And to each other…

That’s racism itself….

The origins of slave conditions 

Planted from colonizations 

Stemmin into plantations

I wish we could all know that 

Information….

Carryin kinds of syndromes 

In our genes ain’t normal….

It came from whiteness….

Whiteness invades our brains 

To manage 

To build a home inside our souls 

That’s never a good thing….

That’s pstd…

If y’all think about it….

If y’all think about our history…

If y’all think about psychology….

Cos I always thought that slavery does 

Affect the mindsets…

And how it passes down to generational bloodlines….

And this is why I write poems 

For us, for our people 

Why do we become like this…

Other black people have said the same thing…

Did we listen?

Did we ignore?

Again 

We don’t discuss mental health 

In the black community 

We thought it was for white people…

However,

We do have issues 

We do have broken cycles 

I think we’re taught that 

We have no feelings

In a way…

We’re taught not to see us 

As humans….

And yet we have to be strong? 

And let it go?

That doesn’t make sense….

Black people 

Y’all don’t have to be strong…

Y’all don’t have to….

It’s alright to rest your exhausted bones for a while….

Why do we have to be a bigger person?

Not sayin we have to be weak…

But goddamn 

Can we be vulnerable?

Don’t mock us 

Don’t laugh 

When white people get upset 

They get softness and remorse…

Too much coddle….

Cos in the world’s mindset 

We still value whiteness….

So society keeps humanizin white way too much 

It was trained, and retrained over and over again 

That’s racist right there….

It was set up…

Black people 

My dearest black people

I know 

I feel

Y’all do matter 

Don’t forget that 

But we don’t have to be the backbone 

For everythin…

It’s just a reminder….

❣️💯✊🏿©️Kai C. 10-14-26