Exercising My Thoughts on Amerikkka:: Exercising My Thoughts on Amerikkka:

By Jada Yankaway III

“Exercising My Thoughts On Amerikkka: Covid 1619- A Racial Pandemic” has been in the making since summer of 2020. It demonstrates poems that express my views on events that took place in Amerikkka. This project also includes chapters that describe why change is vital and other personal and inspiring stories. This book isn’t to offend but to decode many racial tactics. I believe this book is conducive and leads to a desirable result. As human beings we have a fiduciary duty to spread love and peace. For our past to be here in the present means Amerikkka has shown a cursory effort in collapsing the bridge that divides our country. We’ve come a long way with many miles left and I hope this odyssey directs this world to a place where equality for all overrules.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9781669862482

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Copyright © 2023 by Jada Yankaway, III.

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Rev. date: 01/11/2023

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Dedication

PART ONE: TRAITS OF AMERIKKKA

Roots

Buried Alive

I Can’t Breathe

Refugee

PART TWO: HER STORY IN COLOR

Black Women Rocks pt:1

Undress Her Dress Are Secrets

Suicide Rescued My Sister

You

PART THREE: INVISIBLE SCARS

Bitter & Sweet

Broken Soul

Room One on One

Blank Envelope

PART FOUR: BLACK PAINT SPILLING ON A WHITE CANVAS

Like A Butterfly

Pattern of Existence

A Black Man’s Tuxedo

A Product of My Environment

PART FIVE: EXERCISING MY THOUGHTS

Shortcut To Heaven

Farewell Tour

I Love You, x2

A Precious World pt:2 Love Sent Me Her

In Closing

Covid 1619: A Racist Pandemic

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

D ESPITE MY CIRCUMSTANCES, everyday I try to find ways to aggrandize myself, my goals, my family, and my peers. My environment is marked by barbarous living conditions, psychological and physical abuse, and little to no outside news. This has been a complex journey but those who have and still continue to support me, I appreciate you all from the deepest end of my heart. You all chose to commiserate with me during the worst experiences of my life. Without my family and my friends, this ordeal would’ve most likely debilitated my spirit and slowly sapped my will to change. It’s evidence that I participated in an ugly past but with your assistance, my future will be embellished with peace and happiness. Thanks to my friends and family.

DEDICATION

T HANKS TO MY Queen and my best friend Mrs. Precious Rebollar-Yankaway for believing in our process and motivating me every step of the way. She is a phenomenal woman and human being. I’ll love you forever Mama Bear.

PART ONE

Traits Of Amerikkka

ROOTS

Pinned down without reach

eight minutes forty-six seconds passed us by

black neck, white knee

before God takes over

George Floyd uses his last breath entreating

I love you Momma

and I can’t breathe

A knock knock warrant stampedes through her door

sixteen gunshots later

her blood, her floor

concentrated on the precincts of the building

so two hours in

Breonna Taylor’s corpse ignored

The Fight Goes On

The largest social movement in history is Black Lives Matter. It depicts justice and fights to put an end to economic injustice and environmental racism or white supremacy. In 2012, Black Lives Matter movement was created following the death of Trayvon Martin in Florida and expanded into a massive force demanding equality. It’s an estate from the civil rights movement, the black panthers, and the NAACP. It’s a strong connection between equality and peace. This movement rekindled in the days after George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer on May 25th, 2020. Black Lives Matter continues to shine a light on what we call systemic racism and modern day lynchings from Amerikkka’s small towns to its urban areas. Former president Donald Trump and many other white supremacist would have you think Black Lives Matter is a raging organization but this movement is being expressed by many to show unity with black people, globally. Plus, over 90% of racial justice protests in Amerikkka since 2020 have been irenic and far from destructive and violent.

Say Her Name

The killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky by a police officer struck Amerikkka once again. Not only was she murdered inside her home but her killer runs free today. Justice is about the systematic of black and brown people, not just charging an officer. When you’re silent about this inequality, think about Trayvon Martin, Jacob Blake, Micheal Brown, Ahmaud Arbery, Daunte White, George Floyd, etc. Amerikkka is hushing our breathing to ensure absolute silence. Where we are now, I do believe arrest isn’t always necessary because it seems as if most officers are hired to protect a certain race and not others. So, you can’t blame police reform advocates for accusing unions who protect bad cops and accept that there is a disconnect in the criminal system here in Amerikkka. Amerikkka has spent hundreds of years justifying the lynchings of black and brown people that has led to an enormous legacy of racial bias that lies in wait for any newborn child in Amerikkka. the 20th century and people of color are still being subject to demerits and punishments, plagiarizing our freedom. Now, we’re being ostracized for focusing on what’s detrimental for people of color. This pilgrimage of plantation life is hijacking a movement and destroying a cause fighting for equality. It’s willful blindness because it’s not that they can’t see now Amerikkka is treating people of color but they choose not to see and our civility leads to our own deaths. I say that because people of color have a greater chance of being killed by law enforcement compared to white people.

United to Segregate Amerikkka

The Civil Rights movement didn’t uproot racism and the election of Donald Trump in 2016 carried Amerikkka into an anti-equal society that continues to linger. It’s not a great time to call our country the United States of America, more like "United to Segregate Amerikkka ‘’. Racism has shaped people of color’s physical, mental, and emotional health for centuries. It’s going to take an equal amount of positive energy and blacks learning to heard as many resources as possible for protection inside Amerikkka to counter the generations of injustice warfare, beatings, false charges, lynchings, assassinations, and those who are trying to prevent black coalition. Racially systemic is real. The world witnessed George Floyd being murdered in an inhumane and nonchalant manner, Breonna Taylor’s death being secondary to a hole in the wall, Ahmaud Arbery being gunned down while jogging, Sandra Bland murder not being