The Voice of the Playaz

We are young people.  We are thrown into the world without knowing what is in store for us.  We have yet to live, but we have already been killed.  Shot down because we are minorities.  We don't get the chances we deserve.  Our dreams and goals don't succeed because we are young, and we are minorities.  We have so much to give, and so much to lose.  We lose more than anything though, because we are labeled as violent, dangerous criminals.

We are stereotyped and killed by society before we can go through individuation, before we can find ourselves.  We aren't given a voice, or a choice.  We're brutalized and traumatized.  Terrified of standing up against our oppressors.  Those who oppose us.  We fail to realize the young ones aren't the enemy.  We are a family.  We are a voice.  Together we write and stand up for what's right.

-Amina F.