Until
Until White Feminists are front and center at Black Lives Matters Rallies
Until you see the chicken on your plate as the dog in your yard or the child in your arms
Until your favorite pair of jeans are the ones that aren’t made by children in sweatshops
Until your dollars and diamonds become paper and stones
Until Black Children dying at home become as important as white children dying abroad
Until Je Suis France becomes Je Suis Chicago and Waxaan ahay SomaliaÂ
Until we view our daily decisions as creating world history
Until history becomes her story and herstory becomes ourstory
Until you see the faces of little African children getting two cents a day in the parts of your brand new iPhone
Until eliminating the guns that kill babies is as important to you as unborn babies
Until stealing $50 is treated with the same minimum security prison as stealing $50 million
Until you see the third world in the first worldÂ
Until the animals your beauty products are tested on become as important as your flat screen TV
Until your laws being passed and votes are as important as your tv shows
Until Christians have the same respect for Muslims as they do for rapist founding father slaver owners
Until you put your hand over heart and pledge allegiance to the 1 million indigenous people whose land you are standing on
Until celebrating Thanksgiving is viewed with the same disgust as celebrating “Jewish Gas Chamber Day”
And Christopher Columbus is taught as the world’s most glorified rapist and pillager
Until pictures of starving people on my Facebook page garner as many likes as pictures of my bikini pictures
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Until illegal elections inspire revolutions
Until the make-up in your bag is as important as the animals in the lab that they were experimented on
Until 500 gun deaths in Chicago cause rioting in the streets of Seattle and Beverly HillsÂ
Until military spending causes people to tear down government buildings and not return to life as usualÂ
Until White people acknowledge their privilege
Until they denounce the term White
Until people trust a plant that’s been used to heal for 1000 years over a pill with unknown ingredients that passed the FDA by a hair
Until high school classrooms acknowledge that Europeans have been the world’s largest terrorist group
Until Black people fight for gay marriage with the same fervor that they fought for Civil Rights
Until churches use collection plates for meals for children instead of new CadillacsÂ
Until the meat and dairy industries are considered just as cruel as dog fighting
Until we accept that the world is the way it is because of our daily decisionsÂ
Only then you can tell me you truly love your children — your futureÂ
Only then, can I believe that you are serious about change.