Leroy Moore is a Black writer, poet, hip-hop\music lover, community activist and feminist with a physical disability. He has been sharing his perspective on ide
My Poem for Roger Anthony, a Black disabled, Deaf man who was riding his bike and someone called police because thought he was drunk. Police shout to him to get off his bike but remember Roger was Deaf so the police shot him while he was on his bike. I too am a Black disabled man who rides a 3 wheel bike and was stopped by police. (Some of the lyrics are true and some are fiction but this did happened)
Lyrics
I Am Roger Anthony
I am not Deaf but I’m disabled
I ride a bike more like a trike
I could have been shot by police
Like Roger Anthony
Thought he was drunk
Same excuse different person
Didn’t have time to explain
Shot not in the leg but in his brain
I was only stopped by police
On my three-wheel bike
Poepoes tried to snatch me off
Black & Disabled while ridding
I could be dead like Roger Anthony
Would people take a stand in my community?
Or would it be another online story
Here today gone tomorrow
Listen to Krip-Hop’s Broken Bodies PBP Mixtape
Then you will found there are many Roger Anthony
With all kinds of disabilities
Killed, profiled and abused under police brutality
Disabled brown bodies outlined in red police tape
2012 Black History month
Started with a shooting of an autistic youth
Spring has sprung with the shooting of Trayvon
In 2002 it was Donovan
Years go by but this sh** goes on
I am many Black disabled young men
Who fills up funnel homes every Sunday?
While preachers beg for an amen
Wiping away family’s tears
But inside lies fear
Shouting but he can’t hear
Parents call police for safety
Ends up in tragedy
Flavor Flav
911 is no joke
They got young boys in chokeholds
Every morning as I get on my trike
Roger Antony cross my mind
Thinking could this be my time
As I peddle to my nine to five
Living in the shoes of many Roger Anthony
By Leroy Moore
3/24/12
