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Artist JoeMac
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*** You, I'm Black

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Tell me how you can see blood splattering the walls and continue to go about your day, tell me how you can sit back and watch a city with water that even a fish wouldn’t drink and say you live in the greatest country on earth, tell me how you can call yourself the land of opportunity when you demolish public housing for privatized sectors, so you can walk your dogs and sit on your green lawns, all while laughing at those who have to struggle to scrape up food from the dollar menu, cause even trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents, you come up a dime short, tell me how you’d feel if they called you minority, when the majority of that minority makes your economy trickle, but you tell us to shut up and dribble, we are merely entertaining you, don’t tell me that privilege don’t exist, because it was written on the unpublished list the same day they were writing the constitution, and even though all men were created equal, we were merely 60%, not a full human, a disabled dog with three legs and no , but you wonder why I won’t give my other 40% to you, I kept that for myself, so save your talks of that was 400 years ago, cause not even four weeks ago, a black man was tased by the cops, a black man was shot just for walking up his block, I can’t barbecue because of you, my kids can’t sell lemonade cause they ain’t got a permit, you stop me from walking inside my own apartment complex, but you want me to be complex with my feelings, man *** you, *** yo ancestors, *** ben frank, *** the jazz music you stole and tried to call your own, *** your white Jesus cause his skin was bronze, *** you for blowing the nose off of the sphinx, *** you and that unseasonedchicken you make, *** you for ***ing up every black dance ever created and if you *** up the electric slide I’m ***ing you up personally, *** all those child molestors and rapists yall let run free preaching from your bibles, I’ll be damned if I ever take a knee to kiss a mutha***as ring, *** you and your prison systems, *** you in them cheapsuits that you got to replace your hooded white suits, but we aint ray charles we can still see the bull, *** yo stove top stuffing, *** yo english muffins, *** yo german chocolate cake, *** yo polish sausage, *** yo corned beef and cabbage, my neck bones is african made and my mama macaroni don’t come out of the box, and *** you for trying to put us in a box cause you can’t box up 360 degrees of knowledge, *** your college, shout out to all the HBCU’s, *** the colonizers cause its wakanda forever , *** you if you mad it did a billion at the box office , *** you if you ain’t like my black panther outfit, and *** them flat booties my black woman got ass, and brains, and loyalty, my black queens are royalty, come in all shades, taste like honey, so if you wonder why we eat our queens is cause that meat is seasoned, tasting like a plate of grits and scrambled eggs in the morning, cause we don’t *** with frozenbreakfast sandwiches over here, we don’t like that processed , we organic, chocolate, black today, black tomorrow, black when I die, now run tell dat

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