Color of Perception

Time proves wasted
is our system today
when profiling the bases
puts certain people's away

Institutionalized scapegoats 
carted to prison
guilty without proof
in what century are we living

The innocent pay a price
while doing nothing wrong
modern Jim Crow creation
evolved within this nation

Ask Brian Stevenson
for a list of names
right place wrong time
and see what's said

Viewed a useless commodity 
still offered for sale
background check is clean
still hauled off to jail

Doing time 
is fine
if you didn't 
do the crime

Shattered life
broken family
is this
design