Widespread Panic shared a poem in support of the Black Lives Matter movement on Tuesday night, declaring “We are all Sisters and Brothers/ There are no Others/ Black Lives Matter.”
Like the rest of the country, Widespread Panic’s home state of Georgia has seen a wave of protests following the death of George Floyd.
“We stand with our Sisters and Brothers/ As we learn their story/ And our part in the story,” the band says to close their message, alongside a link to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Read Widespread Panic’s full message below:
Black Lives Matter⠀
Black is Beautiful⠀
Our fellow Human Beings⠀
Stand before their fellow Human Beings⠀
Demanding,⠀
“Know us for all the Love, Life, Being and Beauty⠀
That we are”⠀
“See that our Race has been held down in so⠀
Many ways, for centuries, being seen as less than”⠀
The sadness, severity and sincerity of this plea⠀
Will be met with the same understanding⠀
From those who have not lived their experience⠀
Still, these are the pictures⠀
We painted together⠀
White, Black, and all colors in between⠀
May we be the white blank canvas⠀
Demanding⠀
That a new picture be painted⠀
White, Black, and all colors in between⠀
We are all Sisters and Brothers⠀
There are no Others⠀
Black Lives Matter⠀
Black is Beautiful⠀
Our Fellow Human Beings⠀
Are standing before their fellow Human Beings⠀
⠀
Widespread Panic⠀
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We stand with our Sisters and Brothers⠀
As we learn their story⠀
And our part in the story⠀
Visit the National Museum of⠀
African American History and Culture⠀
https://nmaahc.si.edu
6 Comments comments associated with this post
D of KC
June 18, 2020 at 10:32 amDidn’t the person who started up the BLM movement kill a cop? Great example there eh? Hypocritical if you asked me!!!
D of KC
June 17, 2020 at 3:18 pmALL Lives Matter MAN! Simply put….
Haver
June 19, 2020 at 11:16 amTrue that, All Lives Matter! BLM was started by Alt left anti American Socialist. The BLM group is not as they appear. Just like Antifa are not anti fascist they ARE THE FASCIST. Crazy how so many people blindly follow the heard. The KKK could change their name to FOB (friends of Blacks) and tons of people would fooled? God people are stupid. I kneel to God only, and judge people by their character not the color of their skin. Oh and All lives matter.
BV Pirlo
June 17, 2020 at 3:02 pm96%Black on Black homicide rate. 85.7% interracial felony assault rate. 54% homicide rate while only being 13% of the racial demographic. But…White People
Ted Nugent
June 17, 2020 at 12:14 pmNice. Though unfortunately xx percentage(?) of Panic-Meth-Heads are racist, white-trash honkies, but good of the band, it’s a decent and sensitive statement.
Jen Gottcha
June 18, 2020 at 6:34 amYou are so irrelevant. That I actually still know who your are shows my age and my youth based ignorance. I am ignorant no longer. You and your white trash, want to be reality tv star family should be ashamed of who you are and what you represent. You will barely be a footnote in history. I hope the good people of the world will erase your tiny, momentary presence in music from the BEAUTIFUL future that will have its beginning soon from Black Lives Matter Supporters/Protesters and once blind and ignorant fools like you.