Should of seen it comin
&, Hit the ground runnin
in the, opposite direction
Cuz my, life was meaning nothing
To the cops, with the guns in hand
Pop Pop Pop Pop
there we go again
Got another badge of honor
Running cross his shoulder man
But Why it gotta be
Life is valued less than
nonliving property
Things that don’t walk
Things that won’t talk
Things with no soul
Things without heart
Object, by, every sense, of the word
Got more, worth, than a life, that’s absurd!
But, How else, could they, own a human being
Unless, they were, to reduce them to a thing
Sell it, trade it, mate it, complicate it, debated
the price at which it was stated, couldn’t escape, it
was slated as racist, lyin to faces
said if places was traded, justice be weighted
but the coldest shit that I ever did see
Was to make us think that they ended slavery
But have you ever read amendment 13/
When they made an exception
hope you’re peepin the lesson
the Crime clause a justification
to move & arrest’em
to conceal in punishment,
enslavement, investment
Profit from leasing convicts
to mines and plantations
the spine of this nation
Black Belt, Southern tribulations/
Fat Cats, with Fat Pockets
Getting Richer than George Wallace
On, Jim Crow and Politics
While Booker T, was like just take it, we’ll make it
Du Bois, was like fuck these haters
& face hidin KKK’ers, get educated
& Take the ballot box before they encase it/
Cuz Section 2, of the 14th Amendment Stated
and gave basis for felony disenfranchisement
Which was a slap to the faces of the newly liberated/
So this whack ass system, yo, they couldn’t change it
cuz they couldn’t vote to replace it
Black Codes, were the new modes, of enslavement/
Vagrant to chain gangs workin the pavement/
Repayin a debt to society that was never lent; shady
in the first place
Black Wall Street, the first Case/
Tulsa, Oklahoma a metropolis that rivaled New York’s monopolist
With Black Teachers, lawyers, Doctors
Separated from white culture, was obvious
that integration anomalous, like the Battle of Salamis
not analogous to the Freedom Riders in 1961/
Peep game Son of the Sun, Anubis, Akhenaton
Timbuktu, Cairo, Addis Ababa , Abyssinian
Zulu, who knew,
that the negative language in the 15th Amendment
could and would be used for legal lynching and social estrangement
like fuck the arraignment,
went from there’s a tree, “let’s hang’em”
Billy Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” to ghetto assassination
state sanctioned, for those who escaped the New Jim Crow
and prison slave labor
Yo, for real though,
these crooked ass cops ain’t nothing but modern day: SLAVE CATCHERS
You know the Fugitive Slave Clause in the U.S. Constitution
Article IV: Section 2
“No person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.”
Is still in force and on paper
And you cannot even begin to debate it,
that the 3/5 clause in Article I: Section 2 has been erased
when prisoners who cannot vote are still being counted as voters in the states they are caged in
regardless, of whether or not, that was the state from which they originated
so that Congress can have more seats in office
What I am saying is that I should have turned away
because Black Lives, in this nation, with these rules, and these ideological traces
Are valued not on the basis of being human beings
but on the sweat our labor displaces
And if and when we are not consigned to enslavement, our value they attempt to debase it
and that is why cops get away with, emptying cases in our hide on a damn near daily basis
this system is racist
Renaissance Revolutionary 