Dear Black son, sorry this country see you as a thug
Dear Black son, sorry you are despised
Dear Black son, sorry your strength is threatening
Dear Black son, sorry they refuse to acknowledge your conviction
Dear Black son, sorry they fail to salute your morality
Dear Black son, sorry you were legislated 12 years a slave
Dear Black son, sorry the educators you saw didn’t even attempt to pull out of you your brilliance and magic
Dear Black son, sorry the reject your kindness, humility, joy and resilience
Dear Black son, sorry they hate your merciful ways
Dear Black son, sorry they see you as a beast
Dear Black son, sorry they refuse to honor your realness
Dear Black son, sorry for birthing a target
Dear Black son, sorry for being the worst example of womanhood as a Black woman possible
Dear Black son, sorry you are seen as violent
Dear Black son, sorry I couldn’t speak motherese
Dear Black son, sorry I am unable to protect you from these vicious laws and systems
Dear Black son, sorry you are framed
Dear Black son, sorry to see your struggle and you need not be struggling
Dear Black son, sorry the fast life summoned you because rent and bills weighed heavy on you
Dear Black son, sorry for every system that strips you of your manhood
Dear Black son, sorry for the times your confidence was met with defiance, disrespect, deterrence, detriment, dehumanization
Dear Black son, sorry your strength was never to be shown for you but for others
Dear Black son, sorry this country feel that you are an experiment
Dear Black son, sorry you became a dad and now realness has hit and it has hit hard
Dear Black son, sorry people you felt should help; refuse or can’t but aren’t obligated although they should
Dear Black son, sorry that your zip code, education attainment, being upstanding, disassociating yourself and all else STILL won’t protect you
Dear Black son, sorry this place is wicked that we birthed you in0
Dear Black son, sorry you are preyed upon
Dear Black son, sorry they reject you
Dear Black son, sorry they crafted many laws to web you into the prison industry
Dear Black son, sorry they never see how educated you are
Dear Black son, sorry they never see how talented you are
Dear Black son, sorry they paint you as a threat
Dear Black son, sorry bronchial issues are hereditary
Dear Black son, sorry preexisting conditions are hereditary
Dear Black son, sorry heart disease is hereditary
Dear Black son, sorry they don’t see your brilliance
Dear Black son, sorry you couldn’t hear my love, care and concern in my mean voice
Dear Black son, sorry I judged your peers harshly
Dear Black son, sorry you didn’t understand the stress I had when you walked out the door
Dear Black son, sorry they legislate your demise
Dear Black son, sorry they create ways to cause deviance instead of self reliance
Dear Black son, sorry to have to have “the talk” at such a tender age
Dear Black son, sorry for needing to prepare you for a world who hated you
Dear Black son, sorry for sending you to schools where they criminalized you
Dear Black son, sorry for sending you to schools where they stole your inquisitiveness, innocent, joy and love of learning
Dear Black son, sorry for telling the lists of what you cannot do and should not do and bet not do
Dear Black son, sorry for the not IFS but the WHENS
Dear Black sons, sorry for being helpless
Dear Black sons, sorry you are seen for your muscles
Dear Black son, sorry for your mind only needed while caged
Dear Black son, sorry for this unwarranted treatment
Dear Black son, sorry for your unjust treatment
Dear Black son, sorry that your sexuality is up for others to debate and not for you to lovingly embrace
Dear Black son, sorry you carry the weight of the various levels of blackness you are to exhibit upon your shoulders
Dear Black son, sorry prior to birth you had already a roadmap for an entire people completed
Dear Black son, sorry you were unable to be weak and show your feelings
Dear Black son, sorry you wear trained to be vicious
Dear Black son, sorry your introduction to women and relationship was a fragmented, broken, religious, psychologically scorned, abused, hurt and misused Black mom
Dear Black son, sorry you were not raised by your biological father
Dear Black son, sorry we were tricked into getting your biological father out of the house and those with great Black men, our scars were so deep we couldn’t appreciate, recognize or understand them or their ways
Dear Black son, sorry this country understood the power of a strong Black male presence in your life to become the astute and upright man you were predestined to become
Dear Black son, sorry for your maltreatment
Dear Black son, sorry for our collective complacency
Dear Black son, sorry for our collective expectancy
Dear Black son, sorry for our collective passiveness
Dear Black son, sorry for passing on my intergenerational trauma
Dear Black son, sorry for passing on my intergenerational rage
Dear Black son, sorry for passing on my intergenerational abuse
Dear Black son, sorry for the shackles you have always had around your life in America
Dear Black son, sorry for the lies America has always told concerning you
Dear Black son, sorry for the vicious ways you are treated
Dear Black son, sorry for the preparation but denial
Dear Black son, sorry for these racist, oppressive and divisive laws, rules and policies that understand and know just what is within so they assure you are unable to live your BEST LIFE
Dear Black son, sorry for the time spent behind bars due to policies that say they can and will do as they will even lie and strip you of your life and family
Dear Black son, sorry for the many men you saw coming in and out
Dear Black son, sorry for being exposed to hustling at such a tender age
Dear Black son, sorry for not being able to shield your eyes, ears, heart and soul
Dear Black son, sorry for trying to guide your steps down paths that lead to greatness and finding out with you, for us there is no paths
Dear Black son, sorry for being unable to frame my love, support and encouragement like others
Dear Black son, sorry for your guilt just with your hue and gender
Dear Black son, sorry you are viewed as an animal
Dear Black son, sorry we told you to protect and preserve you that you must wear certain attire but that was no guaranteed because you can STILL be cold with tags
Dear Black son, sorry for never addressing my mental illness
Dear Black son, sorry for neglecting you as I cared for your differently abled sibling
Dear Black son, sorry for never having time to just be present
Dear Black son, sorry for not having the wherewithal to allow you room to share or speak
Dear Black son, sorry for giving you a safe and healthy childhood
Dear Black son, sorry for being distant and cold because to understand one day an unjust knock would come, why bond
Dear Black son, sorry for the tears of confusion that were invisible
Dear Black son, sorry for this unwarranted racism
Dear Black son, sorry for my anxiety
Dear Black son, sorry for being accusatory
Dear Black son, sorry for being misunderstood
Dear Black son, sorry for not being engaged
Dear Black son, sorry for being selfish
Dear Black son, sorry for hurting you
Dear Black son, sorry for calling you hurtful names
Dear Black son, sorry for fighting for the world and excluding you
Dear Black son, sorry for not understand my important role as a MOM
Dear Black son, sorry America painted our role but let out soooooooo much
Dear Black son, sorry for this craziness you don’t deserve and never deserved
Dear Black son, sorry for all these things because the way America is set us, until we collectively say in unison…….
Sorry Black son,
Love a Black Mom
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