SELLING OUT!: WHERE HAS THE VILLIAGE GONE; BY MAM

SELLING OUT: WHERE HAS THE VILLAGE GONE! BY: MAM

Many people talk about selling out; in the black community we take things as usual to the next level.
Selling out in the black community can get you killed or get you banned from being black!

Who sold us out?
We have gone from the days of being Kings and Queens & now replaced with being called Ho’s & Bithces, Pimps & Ganstas, strippers are our new role models. Doctors or Lawyer Hell even having a black man as the President won’t them pull up their pants.

Now who’s sold out!
Our neighborhoods, families for what…the mighty Dollar Bill!
Wait now I know we don’t own planes to bring it here and there are no gun factories in the HOOD, but if you STOP and think about it, just for a second what if you sold your product in Beverly Hills, Hampton NY, in the most affluent neighborhoods what might happen thin. Think about it!

STOP SAYING I!
I didn’t put that pipe in their hands!
I didn’t put that needle in their arm!
I was not a part of the destruction of the black family!
I was not the cause your son or daughter dropping out of school!
I was not there when they OD!
I was not the one who killed those innocent people!
I was not the one that shot up the wrong house!
I was not the one that killed the next Nobel Prize Winner!
I am not the cause of over prison crowding!
I am not the cause of 70% of fathers being out of the home!
I was not the one killing over the color of clothing!
I AM NOT A SELL OUT!

WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE…BUT OUR CHILDREN ARE PAYING THE PRICE FOR HOW WE HAVE KEPT IT RAGING!

IT TAKES A VILLAGE AND WE’VE LET OUR CHILDREN DOWN!(poems go here)

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