2020 and this poem has gotten more and more relevant by the year

Sean Bells daughter Jada Bell graduates high school this year. May God bless her and the family. May she rise against the obstacles of this nation❤️

"What do you mean go back to where you came from? My ancestors worked hard to build this country! Brick by brick School by School"!!!! Loved it!!!!

I'm just afraid to raise a black son! Honestly, if any Black woman says she's not she's lying! Growing up Black in a White Supremacist America is hard but raising a child that you know may not make it to 16 based upon his or her skin color is terrifying! This is an amazing poem about the truth!

@poet82n

5 жыл бұрын

kitty johnston My sentiments exactly. And now our black girls are missing and being found dead in freezers and abandoned buildings...smh.

@master-n-teachvirgo8557

4 жыл бұрын

Damn IAM 6yrs to late u was fine 😉

I remember watching this episode. I can't believe 8 years later and this is still happening

@master-n-teachvirgo8557

4 жыл бұрын

Check back in another 8 if u surprised about that🤷

Ive watched this several hundred times. How can we get this to go viral today!?

2021 and I still cry from this, like I did when it first premiered

This video will forever be relevant. In the face of the sickening Ferguson Decision, I had to revisit this piece. Thank you Alysia, Josh, Hasan for speaking for Sean Bell and every other black man killed by a cop (and never received justice). Thank you.

@degen83

9 жыл бұрын

the Ferguson decision was 100% correct. You are drawing the wrong conclusion, blame the black culture for their own actions. Mike Brown would never have been shot if he didn't assault that cop. The only people putting blacks on the "indangered species list" is other black people. Get that strait and stop being racist.

@91mathers

9 жыл бұрын

degen83 endangered*, straight*. If I had the time, I would also correct your comma splices, but alas, I don't; apparently English is on the endangered language list. Black culture is what killed Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, Sean Bell, and countless other black folks? Then what about Tamir Rice (the 12-year-old black boy killed by a white cop) and other black boys who have been targeted by the police with undue cause? Black culture isn't killing black men. White culture is killing black men. White culture invented, nurtured, and fed into the criminalization of black men and boys alike. That's the problem and it's ridiculous to say otherwise, therefore, my original comment (that you thought to pathetically rebut) is relevant and still stands.

@gakahustephen2925

9 жыл бұрын

degen83 it's because of people with your ignorance that America will forever be racist. IGNORANCE IS A DISEASE, GET WELL SOON.

@degen83

9 жыл бұрын

Gakahu stephen Me calling blacks out on their racism is not me being racist.

@iiFlii

9 жыл бұрын

degen83 The ism in race means system PR ideology. Now, who made this racial system in america? White people. White people set up system that would cater to them, a system meant to "keep us in pur place." How can we be a part of a system that was made to detriment of us? We can surely be prejudice, but is that really a problem? We're in a country that demeans our culture and race in a way that even have some blacks hating themselves. The fact that you are even ignorant of a system that has been in place for centuries speaks for itself.

I have listened to this spoken word so many times and each time it gives me goosebumps.

This Spoken Word performed by a group of teens from Philadelphia. The poem focused on the killing of Sean Bell. This poem emphasizes the danger that African American men and women face because of the stigma that is carried among the race. The poem emphasizes the emotional toll that it takes on those who loose loved ones because of police brutality of these so called "thugs".

This is still relevant

12th Anniversary of his death....may he forever live on #SayHisName

Had to rewatch this, so many year after. I remember the first time I watched this, it stayed with me. I had to find it again. "I'm just afraid to raise a black son" sigh. #blacklivesmatter

This is still relevant. :( #AltonSterling #PhilandoCostile

@harrietthespi

4 жыл бұрын

Still relevant. Breonna Taylor, George Floyd

@thesupreme950

4 жыл бұрын

Tiffany Allen 💔 my heart hurts

Rip Sean Bell. We love u, bro

I seen this when it aired on tv & I’m still watching to this day

That was so amazing! Brought tears to my eyes. Emotion channeled into poetry so well that it was almost unreal so eloquently put!!

....I still get goosebumps and an instant lump grows in my throat when I hear the first stanza....I've never forgotten a word of it

Its heartbreaking that years later and this poem is even more relevant than it was when they wrote and performed it. 😔

This makes me cry , especially with the thought of Trayvon

Forever one of my favorites !!

Watching this in today’s time hurts so bad.

So powerful, I listen to this every morning before school, I know every word, Amazing!

I have seen this many times.... however every time I come back to it, I'm in AWWWWW

Amazing how words can touch the soul.

I'm watching this season of brave New voices at school they're amazing

I never get tired of hearing this poem

my God this is........they are amazing! its like i felt it thru my soul forcing tha tears out my eyes

LUUUUVVVVSSS this poem! WOW>>> Great work!

Alysia Harris! she's amazing!!

went from smack dvd freestle to this fire. I choose to stay here. keep up the good work :)

2021 still the best

Never forgotten.

I love this ,i cried when i seen this in class

this is so BEAUTIFUL.....

gets me right in the feels

Speechless.

I swear this thing gives me goosebumps every time I hear it

This one gave me goosebumps.

I Loved It ! It Gave Me Chills !

Never been so proud to be from Philly

can't stop listening

Literally felt chills so powerful

Love this !!

my two favortie poets :) far left and far right!

This is beautiful.

Thee best poem from Brave New Voices. They need to get together yet again

I CRIED WHILE WATCHING THIS................. This guys are so talented, and Alysia just..mann she's got a really unique talent!!

Maaaaan.... I don't have words. Sooo real...

They were all wonderful.. The one in the middle accent was sexy.. And Alysia's voice left me speechless...

Really great video!

Speechless

I love that video

Amazing!!!

This is the BEST!

I love this poem.

I almost cryed when she said "I stand in the morgue with my would be husband where we take our would be wedding pictures see when u die unjustly in this country everything is a would be"

Thank you for a repository and the fan in ass young man and young women christian people we need to live up

"I'm just afraid to raise a black son!" ONE OF THE BEST PARTS

wow......love it

I'm just afraid to rise a black son... everytime I see this it brings tears to my ears

CHILLS! They're so talented

chills

This is great !!!

amazing

greatness

Awesome awesome awesome poem

I always believed that Joshua Bennett was a calm person, I still believe that but WOW he is amazing. Same for Alysia

love them

2018, I’ll never forget

* speechless *

GREAT!!!

I don't know about you all, but this gave me goosebumps..

Moving poem man. Rip Sean

same but as soon as she said Justice is a black woman waiting I couldn't hold the tears anymore

The fact that she's kind of sick/raspy makes the poem so much better.

I am Sean Bell ! #KnowJusticeKnowPeace

I look this up on youtube at least once a month

this is some good ish to watch before school loll

I cried the first time I heard this

I love this poem so much, I getting the chance to meet joshua bennet this weekend! I'm so exited

"Cause when you get shot, everybody bleeds". - Chills for me man.

POWERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alysia sounds so sad and weakened

@ashtonmartin8664

6 жыл бұрын

right, that adds so much to the poem in my opinion

@master-n-teachvirgo8557

4 жыл бұрын

Cause that shhh hurts,I write poems an sum of them make me sad still

there is no experience like the african-american experience. a truly authentic poignant struggle...

I swear you haven't seen poets until you made a pit stop in the berg!! Philly go CRAZY!

This was before tray M incident but still contributes with these types of problems in american, RIP Brotha

Okay👍 good job yall

It was deep i love the end wen they say anotha look a like sean bell

Oh my god wow

I am very strong man but I am not anymore I am crying like a child ! Ohh gosh plz stop killing

i like the emotion the girl puts into her words. it's like she really was the victim making me feel like am also the victim.

Trayvon Martin

:"( Rest in peace Sean Bell

does anyone know where I could find the lyrics/words to this? doing a school assignment on it and don't really wanna have to right it out word or word.....

Powerfull deep real

Unfortunate that this is still relevant today 😢

They're trying to put us on the endangered species list. That was deep!

Rest in Power Trayvon Martin

booooooom pooooooow amazing!!!!!!