Blackout: Poet Crystal Simone Smith Reads From Her New Book & DIscusses The Feeling of Being Under

If you could read for us the Palm Black Witness on page 39 of the book, Black Witness. From my left came a shout of terror, always bone chilling. Firestone, who had gone I could not tell and was still too under siege myself to care home about. So there's a poem before that poem called White Witness. Yeah. I wanted I wanted to show or display the differences that we experience in those situations.
So we know that there are white witnesses to these events, these these horrific events. We know dating back to Rodney King that the gentleman who filmed his beating was a white gentleman on a porch high up high up on a condo on his on a balcony. The. So it's such a different way of experiencing these things. And black people, because it's here, because it's home and it's very, very close.
Often it is difficult. And so I think that that poem, if I were to tell you what that really means to me, it's that I think we feel under siege. Right? I think we all feel that way. And it crosses class lines. It crosses age. It crosses gender. We know Sandra Bland and we know Breonna Taylor. It's not just unarmed black men.We we tend to feel under siege.

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