How Can Some Experience What Pride Is Without Liberation for All?

I painted, I painted, I painted.

I had nothing else to do.

The canvas bled, as red as my first pressed 'Tattoo You.'

Marched me to insanity, humanity single handedly shat on me...

Suggesting I should add white and blue, white and blue, red white and blue.

Picture this, picture this, photo finished.

'Never Mind the Bollocks' I'm no singer, but my voice is on borrowed time so I'll continue - elaborate on my picture.

Inspired by the work of Keith Haring, a philanthropist, art is for everybody and everybody should be an activist.

The fact of the matter is, we're divided.

But we can educate the ignorant, reshape education - highlight what mass genocide is.

Equality and equity the sound of that I like it, but that cannot be of focus until justice is provided.

How can some experience what pride is without liberation for all?

The oppressed have the right to riot, like Marsha. P. Johnson throughout Stonewall.

Discrimination based on migration, I'll never understand, but I'll join the cry to protest and with you I stand.

As an alliance, who will not remain quiet and if you're yet to try it read (Ralph, Laurence) Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence. Read, listen, write to your local politician and if you don't step up and be counted, you won't be protected by your silence.

Picture this, picture this, photo finished.

Picture this, picture this, photo finished.

Picture this, picture this, photo finished.