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Black Lives Are Cheap …
we’ve seen it all so many times before
you see, the truth is at its very core,
that,
black people are subhuman,
not perhaps animals,
because we treat our pets better than we treat those fucking niggers,
oh have I offended you by ignoring your politically fucking correct ‘n’ word?
well I don’t care,
because the truth stinks much much more,
the truth stinks like a massive fucking shitheap,
because the truth is,
black lives are cheap!
we’ve seen it all before, and that’s something they just don’t get,
we remember, you see, we fucking remember!
Mozambique
Chile
Vietnam
South Africa
The United States of America
Palestine,
Iraq
El Salvador
Angola
Afghanistan
Laos
The United Kingdom
Burma
Grenada
Namibia
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Cape Town Ferguson Gaza Johannesburg Ramallah New York City London Kabul Washington D.C Jenin Tel Aviv Santiago Bulawayo Kinshasa Lumumbashi Harlem Soweto Gugulethu Mamelodi Khayelitsha Chatsworth Eldorado Park Sebokeng Lenasia Mannenberg Alexandra Township Favellas Shanty Towns Slums Informal Settlements Squatter Camps Chawls Guantanamo Bay South Central Los Angeles
we remember that our brothers & our sisters everywhere
whose hues and shades and rainbow colours
make us your number one suspect,
the rapist criminal lazy drunken hand-me-down wanting creep,
yes all of that and more
because goddammit black lives are fucking cheap!
CAN you EVEN BEGIN to understand the REASONS why We, The People, are so fucking pissed off?
Are you even human enough to acknowledge THE FACTS,
Are you capable of thinking just one more level deep?
And perhaps then you will know why,
We, The Peoples’,
us niggers,
lives are so cheap!
Gone are the white masks and sheets,
today the KKK struts in plain sight,
on nameless blood-soaked streets.
The past still lives,
breathes,
spewing hate,
stereotyping and profiling and generalising,
‘the Nigger deserved it’,
they still say,
as they continue to hate,
and to slay.
Justice is blind,
we are so often told,
but it’s deaf,
and mute,
and can be,
and is,
bought and sold,
just as they once,
traded,
bought,
sold,
flogged,
whipped,
lynched,
and raped human-beings,
and just as each of those human-beings of colour was called a slave,
today, in the 21st century,
a person of colour,
still better ‘know’ his or her ‘place’,
or face the racist murderers’ hate,
and be shot down,
and be clubbed
and be beaten,
to an early, shallow grave
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