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I don't want to be another...


I refuse to be another Naïve Individual Glorifying Greed and Encouraging Racism Like if you watch a documentary about children in the world who struggle in poverty can somebody please explain to me why every single one of them look like me Black people on screen looking poor for who growing up thinking the only one who can be poor is you and once you work that in your head what are you supposed to do These charities that go to other countries just to film the struggle never pay attention to the people that they hurting catching children crying on camera so we feel bad enough to send a couple bucks to them as if we don't have problems ourselves Did you know that almost every country hides their poverty ridden parts so that their country seems more appealing Did you know that the charities that always put those black faces on television are ran by white faces who harbor most of the profits Ain't that a problem how can I trust that you trynna make change when you recording a crying starving babies face asking others for change as if you couldn't do a thing I refuse to be another Naïve Individual Glorifying Greed and Encouraging Racism but in the eyes of an angel can make somebody drop bands on children who represent the 1% of poverty They are not all black and this is fact make a difference and make a media presence because it's disappointing to see that always on TV its the black community broken in shambles out in the streets we protest it's called riots they can't just walk by us our peace is disrupted cause they do not trust us Pay attention to corruption it's not the easiest subject but we gotta build up our structure cause if we keep messing up there will be an eruption the younger generations have shorter patience they can't let things go so they just build hatred My biggest fear is they won't make it so I gotta be a role model watch me cause I refuse to be another Naïve Individual Glorifying Greed and Encouraging Racism
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