Thursday, March 28, 2024

Taye Diggs Pens Poem About Effects of Police Violence on Children

LOS ANGELES - FEBRUARY 17: "Scope" -- The NCIS team re-examines an ambush on a group of Special Ops snipers in Iraq after an American couple is attacked in the same area six months later. When Gibbs discovers he needs the account of the lone survivor, Marine Gunnery Sergeant Aaron Davis (Taye Diggs, pictured), he tries to connect with the wounded warrior who is being treated for PTSS at Walter Reed Medical Center, on the 300th episode of NCIS, Tuesday, March 15 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT), on the CBS Television Network. (Photo by Jace Downs/CBS via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES – FEBRUARY 17: “Scope” — The NCIS team re-examines an ambush on a group of Special Ops snipers in Iraq after an American couple is attacked in the same area six months later. When Gibbs discovers he needs the account of the lone survivor, Marine Gunnery Sergeant Aaron Davis (Taye Diggs, pictured), he tries to connect with the wounded warrior who is being treated for PTSS at Walter Reed Medical Center, on the 300th episode of NCIS, Tuesday, March 15 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT), on the CBS Television Network. (Photo by Jace Downs/CBS via Getty Images)

*Taye Diggs is the latest celebrity to use their social media platforms to express frustration over the alarming number of police-involved shootings and lost lives of Black men, women, and youth.

The video footage showing the killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile ignited worldwide rage and protests. Most recently, 23-year-old Korryne Gaines lost her life in front of her 5-year-old son following a reportedly hostile stand-off with Baltimore County police.

Diggs took to Instagram to pen a heartbreaking story poem, written under a blank black square, that details the experience of a young boy who, after watching his parents view the fatal shooting of a Black boy by police on TV, questions if he’ll have the same fate.

Read his words below:

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Im finished brushing my teeth I’m coming down the stairs I’m ready for my bedtime story Does anybody care —————————————— I’m standing in my P. J.s My bunny slippers on But Ma and Pa are watching tv I think something’s wrong ——————————————- Why is mommy crying Pa She’s pointing at the screen It’s like she knows them people People I never seen ——————————————– And why does daddy look so mad Mommy do you know He keeps on rubbing the side of his head And walking to and fro ——————————————- What is this tv show —————————————– And now I start to feel real weird My insides getting heavy I yell at mommy one more time Daddy Are you forgetting —————————————- Mama slowly turns to me Her face fighting the tear She cut the tv off right quick She kneels and pulls me near —————————————- Why is daddy leaving the room Why did he slam the door Mommy searches for her words In the matted carpeted floor —————————————- Honey something very bad happened We didn’t want you to see But we just saw a man get shot Right on our colored tv ————————————- Why would someone shoot that man You both said guns were not good Did the man steal or rob someone Was he not doing what he should ————————————— Then I feel my mama’s anger The straight stiff of her back No she hissed through her teeth Police shot him cuz he was black —————————————- I tilt my head with question As Daddy enters still blue But my skins dark just like the Man’s Does that mean I’ll die too? —————————————– Ma and pa stare at each other Blank scared looks on the front of their heads Neither of them could say a word As I imagine myself……. Dead.

A photo posted by Taye Diggs (@tayediggsinsta) on

 

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