#justice for freddie gray

These riots didn’t destroy Baltimore. You did. You did with your fancy degrees and need to make Baltimore another cookie cutter city. Your need to promote Baltimore as city on the brink of some pseudo evolution that benefits your idea of what life should be. You ruined Baltimore by taking away manufacturing jobs. You ruined Baltimore by polluting our Chesapeake Bay, and slowly crippling our fishing industries. You ruined Baltimore by saying, “Cheaper rent, bigger places, and still can work in DC!” And how did you get those cheap places? By forcing people out of work, boarding up neighbourhoods, and then inviting outsiders from ivies in and offering people’s homes and memories for dirt cheap. You ruined Baltimore by mocking our working class history and making fun of Hon culture, distorting it into just a costume party and a reason to take pictures and share on Facebook. These folks out here in these streets have been marginalised beyond belief; forced to see the only city they’ve ever known slowly push them to the fringe of existence. These people in the streets, fighting for our fellow Baltimorean, are the real Baltimore. So excuse me if I’m just fine with some flipped over cars and a ruined CVS. Baltimore has been dying a slow death all of my life, but y'all were too busy chit chatting about the Wire to even notice. Y'all were too busy building community gardens everywhere except communities that needed them and creating jobs for transplants. 

We’re tired man. We’re fucking tired. We ain’t the ones who destroyed Baltimore. 

We Baltimore! 

We Baltimore! 

Open your eyes, motherfucker!