Injustice

Blood and Soil

What happened in Charlottesville makes my blood boil

It was one of the most atrocious things to happen on American soil

What did we fight the World Wars for?

Didn't we defeat them so we wouldn't deal with them anymore?
Shoving against police officers in a disrespectful display

Beating up on college students who walked that way

Circling round vulnerable people like wolves

While the cops stood by like tools.

Their haunting chants still echo in a familiar anti-semitic tune.

"Jew will not replace us."
"Blood and soil blood and soil"
And marching to the beat of an insidious drum
Waving torches of a different culture in a display so sickeningly dumb

They all went marching down.

A young man with dreams and full of hope, Deandre Harris

Came to Charlottesville nowhere near at the end of his rope

Aspiring for hip hop and fame

Nothing could prepare him for the fear and shame.

Nothing could prepare him to be encircled by neo-nazis and beaten senseless.

Nothing could prepare him for that moment of "I'm gonna die here because I'm defenseless."

No one wakes up that day thinking a bunch of guys they don't know are gonna beat them with poles.

But that is white supremacy and this violence is part of its goals.

For the average black man to live in fear

For the average Jew to consistently shed worried tears

That is until there are none of us left.

With poles in hand they struck him down

Left him wounded and bleeding on the ground

Probably would've killed him if not for his friends

And no one wants that to be how their life ends

And in the background could be heard

"Blood and soil, blood and soil"

And they all went marching down.

The most sickening detail of this situation

Is that the attack occurred next to the police station.

Yet the attack was orchestrated by a convicted domestic terrorist

And there was not a single officer present to stop what could've been fatal.

Of course this doesn't surprise me

We've been told by the FBI that the KKK has been in the police force

So we're not surprised when minorities are harrassed and shot of course.

What's surprising is the willingness of the American people to sweep it under the rug

To squash conversation about it like some bothersome bug.

These people that claim we need to hear both sides

When the other side wants my our hides

Are so, so confusing to me.

Doesn't it only take being a decent human being to condemn a nazi?