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Wrongs Righted

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It was another new day

With the same old story

Another black child dead

Another son to bury

It's a sad reality

When you've heard a story so many times

That you've memorized the outcome

And no matter how many times you've read the book

It always meets its bitter end

But not this time we said

Not again

Like we've said all the times before

The only thing different was that

Behind a thousand voices

There were a million more

They put their pressure on our necks

We put ours on justice

We came out in numbers

Not just the young and the old

Not just the proud and the bold

Not just the rich and the poor

We may not have all been on the streets those nights

But we came out in our own ways defending our rights

And today it paid off

Derek Chauvin is guilty

We saw it

We felt it

And today we proved it

But the unfortunate truth is

There are so many Derek Chauvin's

And there are so many George Floyd's

That we don't know about

Although it seems impossible to get justice for and to all of them

We have to try

Ok maybe don't make it your life mission

Unless of course that is your calling

But when you see a George Floyd by another name

When you witness the same Injustice by a different method

In your community

Speak for him

Or her or them

Say their name so many times no one will ever forget it again

Because it was another day

With the same old story

Someone lost their child

Another son to bury

And that should never ever be okay for

Until all the wrongs are righted on our necks their knees shall stay

On cold ground we shall lay

On their words we shall hang

On their lies we shall sing

And when all the wrongs are righted

On our ash we shall rise

Reclaim what we left behind

Be able to live our lives

Without the constant ties

To a system of oppression

A lifetime of depression

And a nation of lies