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Human Rights

When No Lives Matter — Begin Transforming

Greg Prince
9 min readJun 24, 2020

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Emotions are pouring on the streets of our agony. People joined in a cause: Voicing a demand to end the systematic tyranny and violence police inflict on Black lives. Hearts are moved while the law remains the same.

The structure for racism and classism lauded for abolishing slavery in the United States escapes common and public awareness.

All the protests and marches will fail to change the root. Underlying principles allow the United States government and its extensions(state police) to treat persons as property or collateral to dispose of as they see fit.

We must evolve by educating and drastically reforming the base definition comprising our concept of self: Being and existing in the eye of the government. In the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, a new citizenry is established.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or…

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Greg Prince

Bringing real feelings along with messages of inspiration and imagination to life. Awakening is the symptom of my infectious condition. Poetry is my condition.