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Black Men


Young Black men, Black men

Tell me how you wanna live?
Yo Black men, Black men
What do you wanna do with the life you have to give? Do you wanna live the stereotypes that are stained to us or live the lifestyles that have brought pain to us? Young Black men I ask you where do you stand? Do you stand in the streets where the gunshots go off stopping you from growing as a man?....Or do you stand apart from all that to live the best life that you possibly can? .... You see them streets won't make you nothin but another convict. Them streets won't bring you nothing but another conflict. Lost friends, lost lives, black body bags zipped......So tell me how you really wanna live? As an educated black man providing for his Wife & Kids? A young educated Black man in this world is a win... A man that's defined behind his education in them books, a man far down from the line of being named a crook.... Those are the kind of black men that leave the world shook. Just imagine if you could see multiple educated black men on every corner that you've looked. That would be the first step towards the end of the stereotypes & lifestyles like a closed book. So young black men, black men tell me how you wanna live?
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