Thursday, March 19, 2015

Ferguson

my beautiful black people
Hope Lynn Murphy Hoover "Old Black Lady" 1986
we could right now be in our springtime
we could be spinning magic from starlight
making love with sunshine

could be dancing on the Moon and Mars,
mapping Venus
mining Saturn

could be up
several clouds above this life
standing high

we could be shining
we could be at the end of our long hot summer here
in America

but nigga
instead we here dealing with this bullshit
we in August
and it’s hotter than ever
niggas is getting dropped
deader than flies
po animals
got more rights than us

1415-”When yall first started fucking with us”
1619-“Dragged us to this side coz yall was greedy and lazy”
1700’s-”White folks, stealing and killing”
1865-”Fought a whole war just so you could hold people in slavery”
1965-”Hundred years after the war, we still fighting yall so we can live free”
2014-”yep still fighting”

Dred Scott
no rights which a white man is bound to respect

So I know
we in this alone
aint got no choice
but to ride or die
because it seem
we just gon die anyway
finna drop any day
cops, night watchmen, old dudes
whoever
kill niggas
like flies

in Ferguson



no rights

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