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Lost Generation | Siri Imani | TEDxCincinnati


I need you to care not about yourself or
obtaining your wealth I need you to look
around sirens are becoming a familiar
sound
our faces are getting used to being put
in the ground and for what see I have
this theory it goes like my mind is
powerful and that’s why they fear me
because if I don’t see probable cause I
might not go down willingly and some of
y’all might think that’s the kid in me
but for you not to be angry are you
kidding me
this generation isn’t lost now
we’re angry and instead of ignoring the
problem to focus on ourselves we turn
our attention in an attempt to help and
yet at times we do it wrong but to me
anything is better than just playing
along now if this generation is lost
it’s because they’re out here killing
the ones meant to lead us the ones with
the strong mental thesis who see us for
more than what we appear to be and I see
the drives also defend this generation
isn’t lost we’re scared to death it’s
like a wounded animal only hostile to
protect whatever we have left so yeah we
lash oh yeah we spaz we black out it
happened so fast and in an attempt to
express ourselves I guess we forget the
beauty and everything that we have
so we destroyed it but then again years
ago my American history teacher told me
there’s always an taki before order so
it’s this that transition of this whole
fishing and my out here talking to walls
right now you actually listening see
this isn’t the future I envisioned and
maybe that’s why we’re mad now I won’t
take shots and moms and dads but why’d
you tell us it was infinite
opportunities for us when two and three
seemed to be all we really had here I’m
thinking the worst adulthood can give me
is a terrible
I wasn’t I warned about the friends I
lost but we’re the Lost Generation now
we just grew up quick so excuse us for
lacking imagination but we want
compensation for the lies we bought just
carry the thought that most of us are
still waiting and to grow up to become
astronauts now actually what I wanted to
be in fifth grade and I say a police
officer so I can save lives and I guess
that’s just a funny example how time
flies when she opened your eyes because
it was never my intention to despise the
good guys which leads me to a series of
unfortunate questions with equally
unfortunate answers mr. officer I wonder
if you saw grandma’s face at the family
reunion when she counts seven instead of
eight grandsons then would you show
remorse for taking a life for that one
or if whenever you shot someone
you heard the scream from their mother
instead of the bullet leaving the
chamber now now would you understand our
anger see I have so many questions but I
fear if I acts I’ll be answered by Smith
& Wesson even if the point was to teach
an officer a lesson if I’m killed over
this simple disagreement I think we all
know who the judicial systems protect
them because in the world where
seven-year-old can be killed in her
sleep and that’s considered justified
are you really surprised at how many of
us have died see we’re generation losing
hope but we’re not hopeless
some of us are out here trying to fight
for what we believe in and no one seems
to notice instead of having our backs
they go behind it in SCOTUS instead of
telling us what to do why not stand up
and show us
[Applause]
you
[Music]
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