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Trigger Warnings, Racial Violence 




A free country you say?

Free to who?

Free to you?

Free to the white people with the black phrases and the Latin fashion.

A free country?

Telling me to go back where I came from

Where do you want me to go?

Back to the ancestral homes that were burned to the ground?

Back to the home that my mother and father left?

Left to make a better home for their children

A home where they wouldn't be killed

Killed in the righteous anger of the white man

If I told you to go home what would you say?

"This is my home"?

This is my home too

The place where I was born and raised

The place where I was able to walk the streets safely for a short while

So, when you say this country is free

What do you mean

Free for the white man?

The free country in which the good cops get fired

What you may not have learned is that a few rotten apples spoils the bunch

So when you say the bad cops are few and far in-between

I'm sorry to correct you but I think you mean the good

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