For Keenan Anderson
Another black man
Another police brutality
Maybe another March
Another protest
Another forgiveness
Another prayer
Another we shall overcome
This is why white supremacy
Should get shut down
But here's the thing
We're used to gettin killed
By slave patrols
I mean slave ringers
No I mean cops
My bad
No it's not my bad
Black people
Won't burn down
A police station
Or go to an officer's house
And kill him and his family
Cos Jesus said
We gotta love our enemy, right?
After killin another melaninated body
Why do you think
Ida b. Wells writes?
Why do you think
Billie holiday sang strange fruit?
Only to warn us what the fuck is
Goin on...
Here in America
And black people tellin other
Black people to give these wicked sick
Twisted motherfuckers compassion
After they killed your loved ones...
I said no
I said we get guns and
Kill the ones who killed
Your loved ones...cos
Like I said before
White supremacy speaks violence....
And black people will keep protestin
Stop killin us on Pickett signs
Stalkin around for a day
Then go home
Next day we gotta go to work....
We gotta go back to school...
No violence against
The cops who killed an innocent black man
We're that peaceful and sick.....
I'm not surprised....
We will never be violent
Towards our enemy
We get our anger on our own community
Destroyin our own neighborhoods
Liquor stores
Church
Cars
But not the ones who killed somebody
Who look like you....
White supremacy conditioned us
To be this way
Cos
They don't want us to get violent towards
Them....
Another black man
Another Black Lives Matter moment
Another lie
Another white privilege
Another cry
Another child who lost a father....
Also another distraction....
And here we are
Being phony and shit
We ain't that angry
We're too busy
Fakin we shall overcome....
We're not overcomin
We're not really mad at the enemy...
We shouldn't get mad anyway
Cos we're used to gettin affected
And not doin shit....
March and protest March and protest
Prayin forgiven
Do it all over again
After a police brutality
It's a cycle
And
We won't fight back
We won't be violent....
It's why other races don't take us
Seriously
Cos we don't really take ourselves
Seriously....
As a group of people
A race
There's no dignity and respect
In our own selves,
We need to wake up
And see
Our brothers and sisters
Gettin killed by police brutality
Slave patrols slave ringers....
Nothin changed
We're too comfortable
Some of us have learned to
Deal with it
And we can do nothin
About it....
Like oh well
Kill another black man
Oh well...
Nothin we can do....
😢💔💯✊🏿© Kai C. 1-13-23
