The Blood Still Bleeds

Fri, 03/14/2014 - 15:16 -- sjm1257

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The blood still bleeds from generation to generation.

You didn’t hear me right,The blood still bleeds from generation to generation.

In our stupidity of racist derogatory terms of condemnation, we continue to entangle this nation.


The blood still bleeds when Tamera Mowry, a black woman is called a white man's whore.

Oh yes,The blood still bleeds when Tamera Mowry, a black woman is called a white man’s whore.

We fought for, equality and freedom for all, but we continue to confine ourselves in these four padded walls, of “perfection”; where the blood still bleeds because that hurts the core.


 

The blood still bleeds because this generation takes it lightly.

Man,The blood still bleeds because this generation takes it lightly.

We now take our past for granted talking bout who light skinned or nah, lightskin the right skin, did we forget about those who bled, suffered, were beaten and killed nightly?




The blood still bleeds when I’m counted “not black enough”.

Right,The blood still bleeds when I’m counted “not black enough”

Cause if I’m not slangin or I’m not sagging I’m lagging because I choose to be educated and not be like those who don’t give a “fhuh”.



 

The blood still bleeds when Rosa Parks fought hard to get us from the back of the bus

Nahh,The blood still bleeds when Rosa Parks fought hard to get us from the back of the bus

We neglect the struggles of those, and find ourselves behind bars, where Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr fought hard to get us from, remember those scares; the blood still bleeds when we revert back to that filthy caracas of history and revive it with a(act out) puff puff.


 

The blood still bleeds when a negro’s hand sheds the blood of his own for “trues”

Damn, The blood still bleeds when a negro’s hand sheds the blood of his own for “trues”

Cause every blood splattered is the loins of truth tattered and torn because the scales on our eyes are blinded by our own pigmentation; the blood still bleeds because the blood of the slain and murdered, strangled and lynched runs deep screaming and hollering the rhythmic blues.


 

The blood still bleeds when we call each other “ my nigga” and find nothing wrong

Sad,The blood still bleeds when we call each other “my nigga” and find nothing wrong

And it’s dope to have more than one partners for a man who becomes a boss, but roles reverse and a slut is the female who dares the same; the blood still bleeds at the twisted mentality we have when calling a female a bad bitch is a compliment when all you see is a

walking thong.



The blood still bleeds because we are blinded within ourselves and refuse to see

Yes, The blood still bleeds because we are blinded within ourselves and refuse to see

The potential we possess but we chose to drink the poisonous “kool-aid” because we accept and settle for the standard that has been set rather than use the mental weapons of mass destruction, learned from the case of Emmett Till, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther KIng Jr and the latest Barack Obama; the blood still bleeds when we act upon the word minority.


 

The Blood still bleeds when the case of Trayvon Martin moves us to great lengths of activism one minute

Then, The Blood still bleeds when the case of Trayvon Martin moves us to great lengths of activism one minute

The blood of our ancestors continues to bleed because we continue to stab her with our words of filth, attitude of sulfur, minds of vultures and actions of ravenous ungrateful dogs, and infected rabbits.

Be the Bandaid, because the blood still bleeds.




 

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