I held off as long as I could
Saying nothing
Thinking...nothing
Feeling...nothing
-but it's hard to do
When you live in the shadows of the matter
-when it's linked to your blood line
And lineage
-your very life
-when one falls, all fall
-so when you spin the cycle
Call it what it is
# black lives matter
Should have never been said
Since when is "life" synonymous with "black"
-since when do
-since when have
Black lives ever mattered
Do I really need to jog your memory
So that you can remember and recollect
The countless neutered black bodies hanging from a tree
Or the firehoses
-the dogs and their sicking
-the "For Colored" signs "Only"
And the constant screaming of "Nigger, Nigger"
When have we ever been human
-ever had life and the treatment of a human being
Truth is, they took the segregation signs down
And resurrected them with their discrimination and scrutiny
From housing to the workforce
Truth is
They don't lynch and neuter niggers
-no, not like they used to
-with a knife and from a tree
-it's with the jail house, prison, penitentiaries
That they lynch us now
And castrate us of all our dignity
-they don't even have to scream nigger
We refer to ourselves as such
In our everyday language and in our music
Hip-hop
It don't stop
Which brings me to my next point
And the biggest matter of all
-you don't ever name a movement
"black lives matter"
When black lives don't matter to the ones
Who it should matter to most of all
#us
-if our lives truly mattered to us
Why carry on the genocide of our own people
With these gang wars
-the world's keeping score
Statistically more dead in Chicago, Illinois
That the entirety of the war
Statistically we're diminishing our numbers
better than the KKK and the pigs did before
and all the world can say for this poor and lacking
expression is that "black lives matter"
is exclusionary, un-American,
that all lives matter
-because they don't want to admit that they could never sit
-better yet, even walk, -alone, in Trayvon Martin's shoes
They will never look at the heart of the matter
No, they will never look at you
Because you are less than human
Though you have the most hue
To take any ownership in our circumstance
Would subtlety subdue
The very notion
Of whose lives really matter (who runs this society)
Of who are less than human (having no E.I. or empathetic values)
-call it what it is
#The Civil Rights Movement Part 2
Because we all know
This battle
Is never-ending
And will always continue!
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The Chain Breakers
PuisiI created this book in time for February, -Black History Month. The whole premise as the title suggests is to break the chains that continue to enslave us, -chains being any barrier or element that suppresses someone. I personally find some of my...
