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| Killer Mike - a DJ from Atlanta talking about the murder of George Floyd |
No Justice, No Peace, I Can’t Breathe, Taking the Knee
You say unless I’m an immigrant in America this means
nothing to me?
I’ve seen the brutality against minorities which are really
majorities with no power,
It’s about Hate and Ego,
It’s the ‘I’m better than you, so GO!’
It’s about prejudice and ignorance,
“I don’t understand why you’re so different!”
It’s about ‘them and us’, so, “YOU sit at the back of the
bus!”
It’s about commerce and getting rich – That’s the
proto-Aristocracy’s Bitch.
Someone’s always got to be on top, that’s why Communism was
blocked.
Jim Crow was a liar, but we don’t talk about that.
No one is Equal, but everyone’s Racist, we’re all the same,
living from our basest.
Discrimination is a dirty word, the media sells you a lie
that you’re not part of the herd, while your government keeps you ignorant.
Won’t stick out your arm and take your medicine? Then put on
your facemask because they’re using kerosene. Minneapolis, Minnesota is the straw that broke
the camel’s back, fear keeps the masses on attack, there’s no turning back to
how things use to be.
My forefathers lived with the mantra ‘Never Forget’, like
this somehow meant change was gonna come, you wanna bet? The Turks still cut their
throats and the British hanged them. Now the Chinese Government shoots, and Saudi
Arabia backs them.
Black Lives Matter, of course they do, all Life Matters,
but for who? Without education, health, justice, peace, worker rights, the
freedom to dream, and the freedom to choose, what have you got left to lose…
except Killing your Masters before they kill you!
MK©2020
First performance poem in a long while - apologies for any offence but this is the mood right now!
