Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Black, White, Other... Racism for the Masses

Killer Mike - a DJ from Atlanta talking about the murder of George Floyd
Do I need some TV news channel “Explaining the Minneapolis Riots” to me?
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!