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They Need To Go and Take a Second Glance

United we stand, divided we ain’t nothing/
so me and my G’s all decided we are something.
I came to address the violence, and corruption,
we making our voices heard, cuz silence lead to suffering.
we’re tied up in discussions,
trying sustain the hope, stay afloat, maintain ya vote,
everybody runnin’ round broke, sayin’ they woke.
all i’m saying is don’t sit around complaining, VOTE!

We campaigning for a Second Chance/ they need to go and take a second glance,
tell em’ look into the second plan,
we got One, we need a second hand,
in any case the real G’s gone keep it moving, like the second hand.
so what chu want? education, or prison cells?
what chu want? reparations, or living hell? what chu want? segregation, or prison mail?you want control over legislation, or wishing wells?
we’ve been tossing our coins in for a long time/carrying picket signs, standing in long lines
we suffer from the last indoctrination/the product of Willie Lynch, is just mass incarceration.
2 ppl wit 20/20 vision is 40/40,
so tell Jay let’s have a meeting at the 40/40
cuz 40 acres and a mule ain’t enough,
in the 40 Strong Movement we Trust…

LET’S PUT IN THIS WORK…

PEACE….GITT!…IGATI!

Devin Phillips #1158007
LVCC

Protests 2020, a freestyle by Brandon CL Hope

I write this rhyme to tell the times
no better life than living white,
but somehow we supply the white,
that’s why our mommas cry at night…
yet we can’t reap the benefits
cause our skin is darker pigmented
america, ameri-can’t, ameri-kkk again.

They got drums on k’s its evident that they want us off their premises
but I’m trippin cause we built this
and it might sound like ignorance
but violence brings us peace again,
destruction builds us all back up,
and darkness let’s our light shine from
the bottom of the bottom to the highest of the high.
You’re going to recognize that we’re alive and all are here to thrive.
Gangbangin’ to the left and gangbangin’ to the right
we meet up in the middle and bang at 12 on sight,
out here on the block at 12 O’Clock at night
an hour past the curfew on front lines ready to fight
trippin and stumbling your brother’s face is bleeding,
but don’t let it deter you cause were out here for a reason.

What’s good for you is good for me,
good for the goose good for the gander
400 years of being peaceful forced me to grab the blammer
forced me to be the bad guy
in society’s eyes.

Tear gas all in our eyes,
used to tears in our lives
no stranger to the struggle,
you hate me but I love you,
wanna kill me, wanna hug you,
can’t you see that I’m not trouble?
But somehow, some way, you’re blinded by my face.

You built it in your mind that criminal is our race –
but that’s just not the case and one day you will get it
whether you end up dead or whether your still living
your sins have been forgiven.
But sin once again and mercy is straight fiction.
Mercy is not given –
just like respect its earned
no more use for mercy you’ve used your last turn.
You’ve burned your last bridge,
murdered your last black man,
scared your last kid,
let’s live and let live.

Less graves we will dig,
witness a civil war if righteousness don’t win.
If justice won’t prevail,
unleash our passionate rage and give them hell,
unleash the pain of ones before you,
‘I can’t breathe,’ ‘hands up, do not shoot.’
Who’s next? Me? It might just be you.

George Floyd, bam world, Trayvon, too,
injustice in the streets,
injustice in the schools,
injustice in the prisons,
injustice stands true.

I’m tired of losing breath, man, I’m tired of the chatter
long story short, fam,
BLACK LIVES MATTER!

– Brandon C. L. Hope Contributing Writer | Hampton, Virginia #1842318