First published at 23:47 UTC on June 16th, 2020.
Greetings, Peace and Blessings to you, your family and loved ones. My name is Nana Baakan and I have a lot of questions about what is happening in our world today.
I am going to upload a few videos over the next weeks days. I just want to share wi…
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Greetings, Peace and Blessings to you, your family and loved ones. My name is Nana Baakan and I have a lot of questions about what is happening in our world today.
I am going to upload a few videos over the next weeks days. I just want to share with you some of my questions and get your responses. These videos are simply opinion pieces, I make no claims of being a scientist or having any inside info. Please take that for what it's worth, I just have a lot of questions.
Thanks to all my subscribers who stopped by and to new visitors by sure to subscribe.
The topic of Today's video is "Black Lives Matter in the Moment"
Today I will recite a poem called "It Matters" a poem written by my son, Nkruma Opare aka David Rashed.
"It Matters"
If a black man raped your sister or mother would his life matter to you?
If a black man were pointing a rifle at you in your home where your wife and children are sleeping and you happen to be armed as well, would his life matter?
If a drunk black man gets into a car and crashed into a car driven by your sister, your mother, your father, your wife, or your husband would his life matter ?
Would it matter to you, the life of a black man, if he didn’t tell your sister he had herpes and now she does!
Would it matter to you, the life of a black man, who comes into your job while you are working at a bank and demands all of the money or do you push the alarm button?
Does it matter to you the life of the black homeless person you see and ignore and step over daily?
Or the life of your African brothers and sisters who die to harvest their resources so that we can consume and consume and consume!???
Does it matter their black lives?
Does the life of your own black neighbor matter if their child, while playing, throws a rock and breaks the glass on your brand new automobile??
Does it matter, the life of your “Lower” middle class black counterparts, if you are of the black higher class?
Are you concerned about the life of another black per..
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