Black Lives Matter

August 17, 2016

It's the same ole song, Just a different day,

I heard the white man found a new uniform for the KKK.

My people doing a lot of tweeting but it ain't enough acting,

let me know when y'all ready to stop preaching and ready to start practicing,

We need less talking and a whole lot of activist

Throw ya triangles up and you call it illuminati, right?

All I see is power controlled by people that just "happen to be white"

Y'all better wake up..

It doesn't take Einstein to realize.... THIS SYSTEM

They don't want us to have wisdom

So instead they pull the trigger

They put out these portrayals of "what's hot"

& allow our youth to think its okay to go to the party and take 6 shots

Meanwhile some crooked cop, let go of 6 shots on somebody's daddy on the block

They'll never understand our pain

They yelling "All lives matter"

But they are not the ones being treated inhumane

So yeah y'all matter too, but the fact remains

For years our culture has been abused, accused, and left in vain

So cause you had authority, you don't get convicted?

Man you took a persons life and you claimed they "resisted"

You had your knee in his back, man he couldn't even breathe,

Why did you even bother him he was just trying to sell CD's,

It was just a failure to signal

all he wanted was some skittles

The system is far from fair

They left his body to just lay there

They will never understand a black persons struggle--

I've never heard the white man end their conversations with be safe, or take care ......

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