By Demond Childers<\/p>\n
It’s been weeks since 11\/9 and still no word…
\nRegional transportation rejected, how absurd
\nTrying to find solace, but words escape me
\nMake America Great… again?
\nYou must mean, like the Walter Scott mistrial
\n7 shots, just a routine traffic stop
\nEven still, planted evidence, a crooked cop just on his routine
\nI’m supposed to be happy… or am I?
\nMy city tells of two cities… who am I?
\nJobs keep coming, but my people still hurting
\nI advance with my choices, so why I am stressing?
\nI ain’t one for games, so why all the guessing?
\nI’m thinking it’s survival’s guilt that keeps me questioning<\/p>\n
But, did I mention?
\nDivision in a twitter mention…
\nPresident-elect, selected by a system
\nErected by the founders, electors cast votes
\nYou can lose the popular and still get forced hatred down ya throat
\nI tried to breathe since 11\/9
\nFeeling separate from a world that gave us Plessy versus Ferguson
\nFighting for my freedom in the spirit of Dred Scott
\nAnd in 2016 you still wonder why I dread cops?
\nTimes change, but still it’s all the same
\nSame narrative, different characters
\nIt pains me to see us march in vain
\nEvery January we reciting Martin Luther King
\nAnd every February we try to remember that we really young kings
\nAnd by March? Another black soul targeted
\nThe marksmen… well, he wasn’t racist-
\nJust a faceless, badge wearing human with displaced anger and knack
\nfor tasteless jokes when not in public,
\nDetached from the fact that this man had kids,
\nTried to provide for a wife and build a home like his
\nBut he just couldn’t connect the dots
\nBrainwashed from scotch and Fox watching after pulling 12 hour shifts
\nPatrolling Linwood and Brightmoor
\nJust to duck out, cruiser sped up I-75 North
\nGot home so fast, all we seen was lightening bolts
\nBut, my brother… that’s who had to pay the price<\/p>\n
I guess I could speak on it, but I ain’t saying nothing nice
\nI’m speechless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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