Do you have a daughter or a son that you worry about constantly? I do, because this world is not easy, it isn’t easy for me and it is much worse for them.

These girls appeared on the Queen Latifah show before it was cancelled, and they opened up for John Legend performing the most amazing and powerful poem in a manner that we need to see over and over again from our youth.

The poem is called “Somewhere In America” and if you want a dose of reality you need to listen to them speak. From Bustle.com

The trio of teenage girls start the poem ominously: “The greatest lessons you will ever teach us, you won’t even remember.” From there, they jump into fairly controversial, dark topics like rape, race, gun control, socioeconomics, and censorship.

Emotions rage so hard in the three-and-a-half-minute piece, occasionally you can spot a small vocal crack in the performance, but that just lends more validation to the truth they kept spouting. ”

Somewhere in America,” ushers in the hard-to-hear stuff,  ”Women are killed for rejecting dates, but God forbid I bring my girlfriend to prom.” Another: “The preppy kids go thrifting because they think it sounds fun. But we go ‘cause that’s all we’ve got money for.”

The girls are from an organisation based in LA called Get Lit and the goal of the organisation is to “change the world, one word at a time.”

We think with more attention being brought to this organisation and to the words of our kids we can effect change in the world one word at a time.

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We perpetuate alot of negative things with words on the internet daily, if we do the same thing with positive words imagine what changes we can make. Imagine the impact, and the lives we could touch, its starts here, it starts with us and it starts with them.

Watch their remarkable performance here:

Image: The Queen Latifah Show
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