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I am right in front of you.
how many of you are actually listening?
I can hear their cry.
Their cry gets louder as more and more people turn their backs
It’s present day.
#Bring Back Our Girls
“Western education is a sin
Regrams and retweets
Boko Haram ostracized
reality publicized
Publicized to show that the importance is nothing unless it’s multiplied
#publicity_stunt
Malala became 276 different girls
Malala lives on.
Nobel prizes is how we honor fighters
But once they can’t fight anymore.
#quickly_forgotten
equality is a battlefield and gender is our weapon
not a weakness
so I fight, even if I fight alone.
I fight the battles in hopes that one day we’ll win the war.
i fight against the idea that they will be taught that tears water
I fight against the idea that women mean nothing
It’s Present day
And gender is the bullseye
Don’t wear short skirts!
Don’t wear low tops!
Don’t wear tight jeans!
Don’t wear a frown on that face!
But just in case, (pause) I have to carry around a bottle of mace because God knows I can’t risk being taken away too.
This is America
Taken from my rights
my right to speak!
my right to go to school!
my right to write!
my right to define my Rite of passage!
It’s present day
Religious traditions stay the same
Liberty remains a masculine word
It’s present day
Outrage boils in the media
#Bring Back our girls?
bring them back to hopeless lives
bring them back to futures that have already been inscribed on their birth certificate
#Bring back our girls(challenge)
bring them back to a changed world.
where they can speak their minds
go to school
write
define THEIR Rite of passage
and choose education
like I choose education!!
#no_woman_left_behind
I am still in front of you
Don’t tell me that it was just another news report
Don’t tell me(short pause) that we supported them
Don’t tell me (short pause) because we all know we fell short.
Don’t tell me.
Show me.
show them.
Because I can still hear their cries at night.
i can still see people turning their backs
we can’t bring them back
cause we left them behind
Their sacrifice has to mean something
That’s why I’m NOT going away
I am right in front of you
It’s present day
I can still see injustice.
#do_something