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Fires in ferguson Bridges in Brooklyn The youth in the streets cry out in unison Hands up Don't shoot A young man took twelve bullets Because he was brown Battered bodies on the ground This countries streets are paved in glass and blood The air we breath is tear gas And polluted by discrimination We are connected by rage And in this day and age We are convicted by fear The civil servants drive armored vehicles The oppressed pay takes to the oppressors Who pays for the tank that the city bought? Who pays for the policeman's bullets? How hard is it to live without fear of death from your own government. ISIS is less threatening Than the grand jury This story keeps coming back into our history books. Trayvon Martin, Michael brown, Emmet till I am no longer proud to be american We all live in MISsouERiY
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Nov 25, 2014
Nov 25, 2014 at 2:05 PM UTC
Fires in Ferguson
Fires in ferguson Bridges in Brooklyn The youth in the streets cry out in unison Hands up Don't shoot A young man took twelve bullets Because he was brown Battered bodies on the ground This countries streets are paved in glass and blood The air we breath is tear gas And polluted by discrimination We are connected by rage And in this day and age We are convicted by fear The civil servants drive armored vehicles The oppressed pay takes to the oppressors Who pays for the tank that the city bought? Who pays for the policeman's bullets? How hard is it to live without fear of death from your own government. ISIS is less threatening Than the grand jury This story keeps coming back into our history books. Trayvon Martin, Michael brown, Emmet till I am no longer proud to be american We all live in MISsouERiY
yael-zivan
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Nov 25, 2014
Nov 25, 2014 at 2:05 PM UTC
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