You're so pretty I might get distracted...

 
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You're so pretty I might get distracted. But my black male friend, just like yours, isn't any safer today going for a run. Or being stopped at a light. Or wearing a mask. Or sitting in his apartment. And that is a lifelong pain in my gut. There are genocides being committed as we speak. An epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women. There is systemic rape in this world. Families starving. And have we forgotten the Opioid Epidemic? But I will still look at this pretty flower hold it in one hand and vow not to be crushed by its beauty.