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Discrimination, Distinction, Discernment, Differentiation…

This so called pigment of black doesn’t match, because we come in all these shades of black and brown…So they use all these weapons of mass destruction to tear us down, eye color brown so we must not be human amongst this crowed, calling us out are name. As if by birth we were assigned the harsh spoken word of the name nigga…all nigga stands for is Neglecting, Isolation... On black Girls and Guys…Ashamed is how I feel. The bible says we can’t serve money and God, But down in Tulsa Oklahoma they kill are dreams, Burn are bodies, set fire to are plantation, while steeling the name that we built Black Wall Street, Now White Wall Street. I swear Jealousy is the ugliest treat. Lost, Blood shot eyes meet the earth Quenched fingers of thirst; it hurts to be laid out in the dirt Nothing but finger prints in your shirt Blood meet the fingers of the worst The devil creeps up behind, and takes your purse Better or worse. Worse because he wasn’t invited but he showed up anyway to take the things they say they made. If you hated us so much why invest in our so called inventions, because the truth is we touched the soil first. So that makes us the original and like it or not you’re just the copy. I feel real bad for you, because now you’re stuck with your LONLEY sin, OFF balanced choices, STITCHED imperfections, and TRAGIC interactions …This is for Rosa Parks, for not giving up her seat. For Emmitt Till saying” Bye Baby” to a white women, For Little Rock Nine wanting to attend school, For The thousands of children in Birmingham, who stood up for Martin Luther King Jr.’s arrest and were attacked with fire hose and police dogs. This is for the freedom Riders, who faced much adversity; their tires were slashed, buses were bombed and mobs in Birmingham even beat them. This is for the Black Panthers and Every Black person wrongly accused and killed for no reason. This is for Tupac and Biggie for claiming unknown colors of sin; just two black men staring at the world through their rearview. “Multiple gunshots fill the block, the fun stops Niggas is calling cops, people shot, nobody stopped I Wonder when the world stooped caring last night two kids shot while the whole block staring. I will never understand this society, first they murder me, and then they lie to me, product of a dying breed. Tell me will my enemies flee when the see me…Tupac… This is for the first Black President in the United States of America “Barack Obama.” Today I am four terms with my Civil Rights.

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