( CNN ) -- I am tired . Tired of our streets being peppered with dead , unarmed black people . Tired of listening to armed assailants describe how they feared for their lives . Tired of being told `` this has nothing to do with race . '' I am tired of having to march to have murderers arrested . Tired of worrying about my 17-year-old being gunned down by some random white guy who thinks his music is too loud . Tired of knowing the same could happen to me . I am tired of seeing a hashtag in front of a victim 's name on Twitter . Tired of seeing Al Sharpton speak on behalf of a family . Tired of waiting for verdicts and hoping for justice -- as if hearing `` guilty '' can ease the anxiety of knowing a police officer shot and killed a 22-year-old black man while he was lying face down and with his hands behind his back . I 'm tired of the cynics who are quick to extend the benefit of the doubt to a gunman but hesitant to do the same for an unarmed teenage girl who had been shot in the face . I am tired of seeing images of police officers with snarling dogs threatening a crowd of black protesters and not knowing if it 's from the 1960s or last week . In the case of Michael Brown 's death in Ferguson , Missouri , it 's the latter . Witnesses said he was shot multiple times from 35 feet away after his hands were raised . Again , he was unarmed . I am tired of the U.S. Department of Justice having to closely watch local authorities . I am tired of local authorities advocating for Stop and Frisk one minute and dismissing the notion of racial profiling the next . I am tired of the charlatans who chase the bodies of innocent victims the way sleazy lawyers chase ambulances . I hate black looters at peaceful rallies the way I hate the KKK . I do n't want to get shot by a police officer . And I 'm tired of thinking that each time one walks by . I do n't begrudge anyone who has the luxury of not knowing what that kind of siege feels like . I just hope they have the decency not to characterize the socioeconomic disparity along racial lines as a card to be played but rather recognize it as a looming element of our cultural fiber . For example , from 1934 to 1962 , the federal government backed $ 120 billion of home loans . Because of an appraisal system that deemed integrated communities financial risks , less than 2 % of those loans went to minorities . When you consider that home ownership has long been the prerequisite for the average American to acquire wealth , there is little wonder why white Americans have 22 times more wealth than blacks . That is not a card being played . That is math . And I 'm tired of having to explain that . Just as I 'm tired of watching the video of Eric Garner being placed in a chokehold by NYPD , listening to him say `` I ca n't breathe , I ca n't breathe '' and then watching him die minutes later . But I need to keep watching because apathy is a clever hunter . It cloaks itself with FBI statistics and slips into the system between runs to Starbucks . Then one day as you 're sipping your grande decaf mocha , you see a headline about an unarmed black man being shot and killed by police and think nothing of it . Or worse yet -- assume he did something to deserve it . I 'm tired of unarmed dead black people being put on trial . I 'm tired of politicians visiting our churches for votes but skipping out on these funerals . I 'm tired of hearing mothers and fathers weep for children who did not have to die . But most of all I 'm tired of the people who are not tired like me .
LZ Granderson : I 'm tired of seeing African-Americans die as innocent , unarmed shooting victims . He says we 've had enough of saying race is n't a factor and of ignoring racial disparities . Granderson : It 's too easy for people to become apathetic and accept injustice . LZ : I 'm tired of parents weeping for children who did not have to die .