Kids like us are always being profiled for crime, and kids like us never get treated like kids. We aren’t afforded the opportunity to have our parents called before we are apprehended, or a lawyer present before we are interrogated. We don’t get the luxury to just hang out without the suspicion of doing something wrong. We are assumed to be up to no good just for being in certain spaces, even if we had the freedom and right to be there.
Author: Informed Scholar
I am Hip-Hop, I am Theology, I am the Church, I am... I believe all that makes me who I am is grounded in the these three aspects. I am married with two sons, theologically trained, street bred, and Christ redeemed. My faith is not in what I know but what can be known. I am a lover of people, knowledge and social engagements.
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This not the Spirit of God but the spirit of fear!
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Preacher with sneakers 