Trauma

We wanna heal but yall aint letting us heal. Tha salt be pourin and burnin our open wounds like there aint no sun. We scream but yall take pictures of our screams for tha world to see and give weak sympathies. We tired as hell of tha fakeness. Yall tell us to fake til we make it, but that aint workin for us today. You aint wanna us win like DJ Khaled wanna us win. You just like us when we hurt. You hungry to use our pains as your inspiration porn. Look, our traumas aint your damn porn. We grieve every century knowin none of this finna change in 2021. We just wanna live in our truths and blackness without nasty white gaze. We just wanna know.. Why?

Video Art

Faceless Man ft. Adam E performed by Warren "Wawa" Snipe

Video Description: A black and white video with a Black man signing/singing and a Black boy in a hoodie walking in the woods, following a Black man.

Transcript:
I don't need you to love me
I don't need you to love
I've got
I've got
I've got my sister
I can feel her now
She may not be here, but she's still mine
I know she still love me
Got my children
I can't hold them now
They may not be here, but they still mine
I hope they know I still love them
Got my house
It still keeps the cold out
Got my chair
When my body can't hold out
Got my hands
Doin' good like they supposed to
Showin' my heart
To the folks that I'm close to
Got my eyes
Though they don't see as far now
They see more 'bout how things
Really are now
I'm gonna take a deep breath
Gonna hold my head up
Gonna put my shoulders back
And look you straight in the eye
I'm gonna flirt with somebody
When they walk by
I'm gonna sing out
Sing out
I believe I have inside of me
Everything that I need to live a bountiful life
And all the love alive in me
I'll stand as tall as the tallest tree
And I'm thankful for every day that I'm given
Both the easy and hard ones I'm livin'
But most of all
I'm thankful for loving who I really am
I'm beautiful
Yes, I'm beautiful
And I'm here