speaking truth to a nation addicted to lies standing strong in a world seduced by the buy taking a knee and taking the heat raising a fist and crunking the beat colin the prophet–black jesus reborn bringing huey’s manic genius to martin’s sacred song black lives under fire–immigrants under siege […]
racism
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FROM HATE AND GUILT TO HOPE AND PRIDE FROM PAIN AND SHAME TO SLEEK AND FLY QUEERS ON FIRE BURNING BRIGHT TAKING THE STREETS–CLAIMING THE LIGHT BUTCH AND FEMME BLACK AND WHITE TRANS AND CIS BRANDING THE NIGHT PERFECT ILLUSION EVOLVING TONIGHT EROTIC CONFUSION DESCRIBING DELIGHT QUEER POWER TAKING THE […]
WORDS FAIL IN THE FACE OF GENOCIDE A CONTINENT STOLEN MANY PEOPLES DISPLACED TRAILS OF TEARS AND MANIFEST DESTINY ERASING CENTURIES OF CULTURAL TRIUMPH THE SURVIVORS MAKE A STAND FOR JUSTICE AND DIGNITY THE WORLD WATCHES AND LISTENS BUT WILL POWER HEED THE DEMAND WATER IS VITAL AND SACRED LAND […]
queremos la justicia no la poli-migra gritamos si se puede dicen no se pudo nuestras historias son nuestras victorias el poder de l’amor es mas que lo de odio queremos la justicia nos dan arizona queremos la reforma justa y humana su idea de reforma se abusa la idioma raices […]
love and rage took the stage speaking truth eschewing fame inscribing pain abusing veins rebel poet living wraith harlem streets never clean seductive highs pure dopamine kick it quit it never sticking rhyme and rhythm ever kicking shining star badly scarred edge of glory gone too far science dropping never […]
stop to pray stop and stare pain can teach or destroy night and day love and rage rule the streets fill a void six feet deep a body laid grief runs wild children play set love free this sacred day make a choice to change your ways friendship bleeds love […]
memoria y resistencia luchando por la justicia evitando los ejercitos entreniando por los fascistas poder no escucha a los que no estan gritando poder no escucha a los que no estan marchando escuela de asesinos barbarianos y fascistas escuela de las americas pero solo por los con riquesas estamos exigiendo […]
In the beginning was the word And the word was death Or maybe life or death to all life And ADAMA was born Toy soldier of divine clay Neither man nor woman just fine in its way ADAMA was cleaved in two by fire Lightning strike from Zeus on high […]
We rule the night Armed with paint Taking walls-scrawling names Plant a flag-say your piece Make it rhyme-make it deep Keep it real-RESPECT the street Cops on the hunt rolling deep Repressing speech suppressing peace Defending the sacred sanctity Of bourgeois private property Upset the cart-rise and fly Empires fall […]
Dehumanizing African lives Rationalizing genocide Embodied in-law-enshrined in rites Consuming a nation riddled in lies It lives in every cop car Writhes on every cell block Seeps through Obama’s door Decimates Iraqi lives Animates the tea party Brain-dead proto-fascists Armed with three bad ideas But too shameless not to talk […]