Spoken Word From A Poet Tired of the Injustice and Their Arrogance

 


Can't stop racing thoughts

the audacity, racist cops

they get away scot-free, seven shots

the man can't breathe

I can't watch another cop walk

no shame in their genocide

called exceptional

over 400 years 

so yes it is intentional

junk science, Manifest Destiny

land and resources for those with less melanin 

under the guise of religion

supposedly ordained by the Lord

disguised as a sword

the lies, the broken treaties

the massacres, Pequot, Sand Creek, Wounded Knee

The Cold War

proxy, excuse to kill people of color 

label the indigenous guerillas 

they round them up

and drain the water from the fish.

Who trained them?

Who sold them the weapons?

Kill the Indian save the man

Residential Schools 

the evil, they were just children, ripped from their families and look what you did to them

parents that tried to fight were arrested by your law on sedition

the football team removed the mascot,

but Peltier is still in prison


Stolen lives, stolen dreams, in chains across the sea

no respect for nothing

not their names, or beliefs, or tears from broken families sold down river

the trauma, torture, mutilation, exploitation, fake emancipation, convict leasing, 

you set them up and sold them out with reconstruction

share cropping, lynchings, Jim Crow

Black Codes, Angola, Parchman Prison, Bombingham, The Red Lining

what your hate did to Emmett Till 

also killed Medgar and was complicit in Malcolm's death

and you even killed their King

and continued family separation

Attica, Sing Sing

the members of their vanguard are now elders behind bars 

Free Russell Maroon Shoatz, Jamil Al-Amin and Mumia Abu Jamal!

Free all the Political Prisoners! 

Free all the children behind bars!

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