Black in America
April 14, 2021
Light skin, Dark skin
They don’t care about your plans
As long as your skin is melanin,
you’re considered a threat to them
Someone tell me what the difference is
between me and you?
I don’t get it
It’s kinda blurry
You bleed just like me
So tell me why we get treated differently
When we’re up against the jury?
You shouldn’t wonder why we riot
And protest for Ahmaud Arbery,
Shouldn’t wonder why some people blame
the police and say cops are dirty
It’s simple to see like black and white
2020 vision
It shouldn’t be blurry
It shouldn’t be blurry
If age is just a number
Why isn’t color just a color?
Why do some see a difference
between one another?
Why do some hate each other even if they
come from the same mother?
People who you think are your friends
stab you in the back like Michael Myers
Now you can take this any way you want
But I’m talking about racial inequality
And inequality over all
The same ones you’re riding with are
The ones who watch you fall
For real
No one is born with hate
It’s something you learn
Passed down from generation to generation
Like a family tradition
It’s absurd
I know we come from opposite sides of the spectrum
I just want to meet in the middle like Malcolm
Do you concur?
We come from opposite sides of the spectrum
Why does it feel like there are two separate laws?
It’s absurd
Two separate parties but I feel like I’m not invited
Ironic that our first name of the country is United
Quick to make sure you’re falsely indicted
Quick to put you six feet under like Corona
Because a man felt frightened
Quick to throw a person of color in the penitentiary
For something they didn’t do
Just want to get us off the streets
For life
No questions asked
Maybe it’s a Scooby Doo mystery,
then history
I came from a family of activists
What made you think I wasn’t going to act on this?
Four hundred years of oppression
But you expect to throw a giant party and
Act like everything is lit
Expect us to forget our past
Man what did we ever do to deserve this?
I know a hundred years ago I would’ve been
hung for saying this
I come from a family of activists
What makes you think I wasn’t going to act on this?
We come from opposite sides of the spectrum
Many years have passed
Very little has changed
Liberty and justice for ALL
What ever happened to that?
Why can’t we all just focus on the facts?
We need to change for the better,
Not for the worse
Like Pac said:
“Pray for better days”
Hopefully one day we can all come to an agreement
And finally change our ways