How much longer must the black race suffer?
Why must the black race be stereotyped
in such a negative light?
and be divided by the color of their skin
in a damaged world that leaves them sinking
trying to search for answers to unanswered questions
trying to understand the double standard
between reality and time

The black race has shed so many tattooed tears,
staring at the shadowed hole in their soul,
the burning flames raining through their domain,
strangled, tangled, and mangled,
drifting, slipping, tripping, shifting
in various orbits as stained doors slam shut
in their face, revealing their disgrace and lack of taste
for the black race, nowhere left to escape,
can’t even catch a break from the police,
even these so-called wannabes playing the field,
destroying our name for their own gain,
chasing fame while we stay buried below ground and slain.

How much longer must the black race stay in this **** maze?
How can we be free from this brutality and White Supremacy?
for decades we have been degraded, devastated, slated,
splayed, pepper-sprayed, played for a fool under these
broken rules, stuck in captivity as the growing violence
never ceases, as our voices become speechless, weakened,
bleeding in slippery inkwells, listening to fabricated history
subtracting our ancestry, our individuality, our immense intellect,
profound African Americans who invented so many impressive creations, like Garret Morgan who developed the gas mask and traffic signal, like Otis Boykin who developed the IBM computer
and pacemaker, like Marie Ban Brittan Brown who developed
the closed-circuit television security.

Why must the black race be portrayed as the enemy?
Why must we be demoralized and victimized in the eyes
Of vicious antagonists?
Why must every roadblock that we take lead to smashed dreams?
Why can’t we be free and treated equally in America?