The most important thing for people to understand is that this is what black, brown and people they consider ‘others’ deal with on a daily basis. To understand the frustration and to understand the ‘chaos’ that we’re seeing throughout America, you must first understand what it’s like to fear for your body every day, based on a system that has been constructed in order to maximise the ability for you to lose that body every day. The frustration you are seeing is compounded over generations, and comes on a level of blood trauma that is quite literally inherited through cultures where we fear, have a sense of anxiety, and a sense of hopelessness. It becomes inherent to our very existence. George Floyd is a symbol of a much greater problem. George Floyd is me; George Floyd is my father; my niece; my brother and my best friend. George Floyd is so many people.
I have been out there and you could call it various things: you can call it rioting, you can call it chaos, you can call it looting, and you can call it protesting because it still very much was. But it is a result of the amalgamation, the aggregate product of generations of mistreatment. And here’s the thing: our systems and these structures know this is possible, which is why they train for it. They have riot police and the national guard, and they train for these moments because they know they’re possible – and they’re possible because they create them. We are just speaking a language that we have been taught: chaos. We’re in a system where all they give us is chaos – it is socially engineered. If you can watch that video of brother George Floyd… [and] a man who was so brazen and validated by a system that he showed no fear of consequence, and if you don’t understand why people are afraid, frustrated or why they won’t take anymore, then you are either blind, you have an actual disconnect in your brain, you’re completely ignorant, or you’re racist. That’s it.
The system is not broken; the system is working exactly how it is was created, and this is exactly what it wanted. Once we fucking wake up and understand what it wants to do to us and what it wants to take from us, then we can create an alternative method on how we’re going to live and operate outside of this. I mean, honestly, if you look at it on a fundamental level, the system is not much different to a plantation, and it’s not much different to any structure that has been created to exploit the body, and utilise it in a way where it plunders culture. All we are being given is mistreatment, death and misunderstanding by other people who should be understanding us – this is what is happening right now. We need to understand that we are working in a system that was created in a way to destroy us, and to destroy cultures in a way that breaks them down to such a minimal level that they can be controlled. People might think the system is broken, but we’re actually just giving it more power because was created to do this very thing.