Living In ‘Merica

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How many protest songs do we have to sing?

I am weary of hearing continuing tales of sadness

Wrapped in verses fraught with pain and angst

Over repeated generational injustices sustained

Voices of outrage covered in angry tears

How many more times can we see things before we are numb?

To the atrocities and genocide

Plastered on our timelines every day

Angry we have to feel some kind of way

The smell of fear and loathing permeate the air

While misinformation and mistrust hold hands

Stroking a latent xenophobia

As the media ringmaster plans the next move

We only see what they want us to see

#editedtruthforthemasses

The news has become a cage match

We are forced to defend our outrage

That often falls on deaf ears covered in privilege and ignorance

Vetted by FOX they believe their source is infallible

And are quick to respond that “All Lives Matter”

When the loss of life is Black in blue hands

(say officer three times fast…Overseer)



But this is not a new scenario

We never really left this plantation matrix

Morphing slavery into sharecropping and strange fruit into video lynching

We have cried for our mothers/fathers/sons/daughters

For years we have tried to tell our side of the story

But verbal truth was always discounted

And we had lying eyes…

Now technology is our oculus for knowledge

Instantaneous verification is still questioned

And police are hardly ever arrested…

Disbelieving eyes glazed over to crimes against people of color

Who are shot and asked questions later

This can’t be real in 2016 some might say

Where can you go without seeing/hearing this almost every day?

Shot while walking

Shot on the ground

Shot for wearing a hoodie

Shot in a car

Shot for selling cigarettes/cds

Shot from a distance…

The pattern of injustice is incomprehensible

This epoch’s  version of Jim Crow

Seems as if more they try to come clean, the less we know

And we have railed against the establishment with marches and such

But we have not hit them in their pockets much

So the directive now seems clear

The only way to affect change is to monetarily strike fear

In those who seek to quell our existence

We can no longer be passive in our insistence

To be protected and preserved

and our voices will be heard

When remind them of our power

Collectively, we can affect change

#eattherich2022

And the reverberations of our dissent will demand attention

Time for this paradigm to be eradicated

Because the time for excuses is expired

And this time the Revolution is Streaming Live….