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Another day, Another life: letter to the opps


Another one of my brothers lives taken away now We keep screaming for justice but they constantly hunting us down How do our ways of living affect you, fuck we all just breathing the same Except for George Floyd man you fucking put your knee on his neck Till mans was on his last breath But when Kaepernick went down on his, y'all disagreed with that step ? Even in times like these, y'all still adding bodies like reaper Told y'all my brother's my keeper but how will he be if he's already been killed bruh Two popped in the back, kneel on his neck til he's dead, two against one and "he was a threat" they said Man I hated your people since I found out ours they killing, and that in every generation y'all keep taking our shit, that the only language y'all speak is hate and racism on my negus You bilingual ass bitches Chance say sometimes the truth don't rhyme Revolution got love in it but it's not full of it Can't even say "can we go back to how it used to be" shit ain't never changed First the hanging and the chains now it's bullets in our brains and momma have to deal with my t-shirt and all the bloody stains Blood, come outta Babylon or their actions will remain the same Lions can but animals like them cannot be tamed nostalgia hit me, I saw this black image somewhere cause like us, history's being repeated and framed We can no longer walk in silence and keep our feelings contained For long enough your bullshit has been sustained Uh but the fact remains, that your job is to kill my people till we all covered in your pig stains -tonyy
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