What does the flag mean to me?
What does the flag mean to me?
You want me to say something cliché
Like freedom
Joy
Peace
But all in all to me the flag
Mean the exact opposite of free
People would get mad
If I were to shout America was never great
But what they don't get is that they are stuck in a bubble called white privilege
You don't understand
the hardship
The struggle
The disrespect
the stares
The spit
That black Americans get
You will never understand that,
That flag will always be a symbol of slavery
And the chains and bondage
That makes us sisters and brother
What does the flag mean to me?
It means that we have no real definition of free
We prance around declaring
"America, land of the free and home of the brave"
But this was never home for the slave
To get stared at because your black
To get beaten
Kicked
Lashed
And trashed
Because you don't have a white mask
Another man
Shot
Dead
Killed
Because he wasn't the ideal America
That flag is the bondage
that will forever hold us hostage
After Slavery was abolished
We went on to think that we're free
Chanting
"Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we're free at last"
But you didn't expect that you'd still be
fighting the same fight in 2017
We thought the chains would broken
That maybe America is the home of the free
In actuality it's the same exact thing
Getting pulled out of cars brutally murdered
Still being denied our court orders
So what does the flag mean to me?
It means that we were never free to begin with
That people like me don't have the same definition is free
To be free walk down the street and you don't get stared at for walking while black
That I am free to reach for my license
Without fear of being shot at
Free to walk into at store bummy and they won't be afraid I'll still all their money
So what does that flag mean to me?
That we still have a lot to do
Before America is ever great
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