Category: racism

• January 14, 2021

  Trigger Warning: Ills of Man

    Ills Of Man I can’t be angry at you anymore Tying myself and my heart in knots Tripping over my own legs following after you Has left me feeling discombobulated   We are separated by mindset I could put your progress in an Easy-bake oven 10 years of baking And you still ain’t rise…
• August 26, 2020

  Solution

  Solution spent my whole life trying to stay out of jail didn’t waste my time scamming for a rich man’s retail seen too many people… end up broke and broken be hide the sullen bars of bricked cells but it doesn’t take much… vague descriptions of a Black suspect turn daily lineups and bypassed identity…
• June 28, 2020

  Colorblind 2020

  Colorblind 2020 this year i repeat, this year has been a complete mess yes, i’m blessed   but i’m over the stress covid-19, self isolation, enduring racism and civil unrest put me to the test but I’m still standing with all the strength God gave me   i’m more focused than angry but even if…
• May 31, 2020

  Someone Shot At Me

  As of late, I have been conflicted regarding who I want to be and accepting the truth that consumes my daily thoughts. All the normalcy that I drew limited comfort from went out the window this week! And within my heart that bleeds Black I understand why… The persistent killing, economic oppression and abuse of…
• May 5, 2018

  Gentrification Nation: Litter on the Ground

  Move us out Tell us that our children born and raised HERE Don’t have the right to stay   Build luxury condos So we can’t afford to pay Clean up the garbage That once covered the streets, where we stay The things that our taxes should have covered before you came   Invoke the law…
• April 18, 2018

  aMERICAN Nightmare

  Poverty and tears Brought me here   Blood shot eyes and Nightmares Brought me here   Inequity and a dream deferred Brought me here   Hopes of being free as a bird Brought me here   I can’t allow myself to me trampled on for your GREAT SOCIETY Waking up in a cold SWEAT Brought…