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Anthony Hamilton Pens Open Letter: “We are fed up. We are tired.”

<p>Anthony Hamilton offers his take on injustice and we must say&comma; he really hit the nail on the head&excl; His response is most definitely one of our favorites so far&period; He addresses being a father of six black males&comma; police brutality&comma; the black community and what he thinks the solution to the madness is&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This comes after he cleared up a misunderstanding after a flyer stated that he and Fantasia were having an &&num;8220&semi;All Lives Matter&&num;8221&semi; concert&&num;8211&semi;he says he had nothing to do with that flyer and did not sign off on it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I am a father of six black males&colon; three young men ages 19 to 27 and three young sons under age 6&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he begins&period; &&num;8220&semi;My sons deserve to be treated with dignity and respect&period; When we speak out against blatant injustices&comma; trolls rise from the shadows and accuse us of being anti-police&period; My brother has served in law enforcement for more than 25 years&period; He has made detective and still has a great name in his field and in the community&period; The pathway to change involves good cops speaking out against crooked cops&period; We are fed up&period; We are tired&period; No one should be executed in the middle of the street&comma; especially with his or her hands up&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Some of the greatest leaders of our time promoted peaceful resistance&period; I would never deny the value of peace&comma; but people feel that they are under attack and that nobody hears or respects their demonstrations&period; The unrest in Charlotte&comma; N&period;C&period;&comma; after the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott is a product of people simply being exhausted&period; They are sick and they are tired&period; Our communities lack hope&comma; and their backs are against the wall&period; They are constantly reminded that white privilege is alive and well&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;I accept people from all walks of life&period; If you label me a racist because I care about my friends and family&comma; then you are part of the problem&period; Those who want to cripple us and get rid of our people are yet another generation of the Ku Klux Klan&period; We’re not going anywhere&excl;<br &sol;>&NewLine;So what do we do&quest; We have to reflect on these big corporations&period; Do they value us as producers and consumers&quest; The biggest way to effect change is through spending power&period; If you don’t respect us&comma; then we don’t respect you&period; Not all corporations are bad&period; Not all white people are bad&period; However&comma; there is an ugly underground culture in this country full of those who feel that people of color are inferior&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;If we stop empowering these big corporations who support the folk who want us gone&comma; then we will show our power and cripple their pockets&period; I do not advocate hurting innocent people of any race or group&period; There is nothing cool about senseless violence&period; 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