Cut the check

Cut the check
Right?
Cut the check
But
I don’t think we want reparations

It’s all talk…it’s all in another speech….

I don’t see us
Doin anythin to
Put money in our hands
And have you fixed everythin
That’s broken…

We don’t make governments
To give us billions…we just
Let it go….how many black folks
Pray for them to cut the check…
How many prayers?

After all free labor
After all this capitalism
After that white America is livin good….

White folks
Know they owe us….
For being their mammy
For being their sambo
For workin in their yards and fields,
For beatin us, breedin us….

They know they’ll sit
On our money…
They’re not goin to cut the check
And we, we’re not that serious….

I don’t think we ever be
We continue to write poems
Articles post hashtags reparations
On every social media
Without action…

If we do somethin about it,
Don’t have me write a poem
Or a paragraph of why i need to cut the check….
No don’t give me assignments
Just cut the check and leave us the fuck alone….💯✊🏿©️ Kai C. 2-12-24