By Cedric McClester

How many black men
Have to die?
At the hands of cops
Who are quick to deny
That their blackness
Was the reason why
Their families now morn
And their friends now cry

How come it’s always
Deadly force?
Why don’t they choose
Another course?
But they don’t
Then lack remorse
For the dastardly actions
That they endorse

It’s always black men
Who in taking flight
Wind up dead
In the dark of night
And the cops should know
That it ain’t right
But they do it anyway
And they aren’t contrite

After Attorney Ben Crump
Has been reached
How many funerals
Must Reverend Sharpton preach?
For aggrieved families
Who are in the breach
Before the cop’s behavior
Has been impeached







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