Sorry Trayvon, we failed you.......

[water]

Sometimes you think
What would it take
To just get the basics out of life?
Dancing to their tune
Playing the part
Succeeding
Until they rip you apart
Trusting in a system
Not designed for your benefit
Yet we still play....

Teaching our young
To have faith
To dream
That impossible dream
To hope
That impossible vision
To work
That impossible journey
To have that work
Torn from your hands
For no other reason
Than being black
Yet we still play.....

What dreams are we really selling?
Dreaming of living
When change comes with death
Black skin, red blood, clear tears
We have been crying so long
Our hearts are dried
Hardened from the abuse
Just trying to be human
Yet we still play.....

Yesterday was Trayvon
God bless that boy
But it took a life
To give humanity life
Even for one slice
Of this American pie
Yet we still play......

Kaya

 

[BIGGSARGE]

That's on point.

 

[The Jamaican]

Yezzir

 

[Salty Nuts]

Yep

 

[BMan]

Great post!

 

[water]

 

[olly1969]

New Zealand don't have a retirement VISA, I guess BKK is the only place for me.

 

[silentking]

On point

 

[dasmybikepunk]

Thanks for the reflection and ponder poetry.

Realtalk I'm staying in the house tomorrow cause if I see a CAC
on the street and they not acting right I have no idea what
I may or may not do....

I'm not saying it's right I'm just sayin'

 

[rebel]

thanks

 

[Amajorfucup]

Great post kaya.

 

[baboss2212]

Dope

 

[SoulPatch]

Good Prose Kaya

Not playing the game anymore

 

[godofwine]

A little something I put together, Injustice for one is injustice for all

Travon Martin George Zimmerman

I wasn't rooting for GZ to go to jail because he was White and he killed a Black kid. Color had no part of it. He was a man who was too timid and should not have had a gun to start with. It could have been a White kid with a hoodie and he would have gotten the same treatment, or would he have? Should he have?

We'll never know, but we have to stop seeing things in Black and White because, as I have said before, injustice against one is injustice against all. Stop seeing Black perps and White victims, stop seeing White perps and Black victims and simply see the act. It may not affect you today, but one day it may, and you cannot expect or hope for "justice" if you simply looked the other way the time before because the victim wasn't the same color as you.

In my old neighborhood the "No Snitching" policy was huge and people were threatened for speaking on crimes, even when by doing so would have eliminated the crime and criminal. One day a guy saw an apartment being broken into while the tenant was at work - he said nothing. The tenant came home to find their home burglarized and he still said nothing. The cops got nothing. 3 weeks later his apartment is burglarized, likely by the same perps. Had he said something 3 weeks before he could have gotten the criminals off the street and saved his own possessions, but his Peter Parker style, "I forgot the part where that was my problem," now found a victim in mirror when he could have prevented it.

Stop seeing Black and White, White and Black (not negating other races, simply making a point). We live in a world where we are viewed by a couple millimeters of epidermis. Skin. Blacks have more in common with Whites than they do differences and vice versa. I have friends from all colors of the spectrum, from Cleveland to California to Peru to Puerto Rico to the southernmost south to the northern most north.

We all have to look at the bigger picture. It isn't Black vs White, but the 1% vs the rest of us, and a system that they created that is horribly broken. Et tu, Brute? Check your back for the knives that were slammed into it over your lifetime and 90% plus have been from your own race. Racism is a misdirection to keep us fighting amongst each other while the 1% pick pocket us while we fight.

 

[Ghetto Gutta G@ngsta]

great poem: the last line of each paragraph would equally be appropriate title the thread strand missing from the poem

 

[yureeka9]

 

[water]

One of you need to put a beat and rap that shit

Wake the rest of these mofos up

 

[gotay]

Nice...Good Post

 

[brown_joelewis]

Most whites don't get it. THe lychings, the rapes, the deaths of our people. I'm angry...damn..I'm angry!

 

[water]

Most whites don't get it. THe lychings, the rapes, the deaths of our people. I'm angry...damn..I'm angry!

Most white DO get it.

What they don't get is why we keep trying to get them to express that they get it.

 

[SM0k3]

*bump* Great Post Bruh

 

[Soul On Ice]

Props fam

 

[monsterman]

Great post.

 

[Vulcha]

Most white DO get it.

What they don't get is why we keep trying to get them to express that they get it.

Real shit right there.

 

[max-dawg]

One of you need to put a beat and rap that shit

Wake the rest of these mofos up

that's a problem in itself.

why the fuck does everything need a rap verse for us to "wake up?"

mofos need to read + comprehend + understand...cause at some point, they will dance to the beat & leave the message behind.



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[callbacc]

 

[Bushmon]

Kaya Salute!!!

 

[respiration]

Respect, brother.

 

[kefta]

FUCK ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE THAT PRACTICE, SUPPORT AND/OR HELP TO MAINTAIN THE GLOBAL, NATIONAL AND LOCAL SYSTEM OF RACISM/WHITE SUPREMACY.



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[alexw]

at 17, trayvon has joined the ancestral realm

meditate to the brother and he'll talk to you

he didnt die for anything...unify

peace and blessings, family

 

[TEN]

I just woke up to the news, and I cried my eyes out.

We failed you Trayvon.

 

[water]

I just woke up to the news, and I cried my eyes out.

We failed you Trayvon.

 

[bigirl]

My heart SO HEAVY I cant even describe it :-( :-( :-(

 

[water]

Another 17yr old gunned down in ferguson. 10 shots

10 shots

 

[futureshock]