Breonna Bland Arbery-Floyd (a poem for the slain)

George Floyd
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I’m tired, I’m tired, but also inspired
Time to vote folks out get these DAs fired
Grandmas stand in front of cops defendin’ they kids
Grandpops now the man of the house if they ain’t dead
And I ain’t watching more videos of me getting killed
Cause I see myself in every video that’s real
And if I don’t see me I see my whole family
My best friends, my students, my community
If you don’t see yourself where’s your humanity?
What you gonna do to stop this insanity?
If you won’t stand up for you will you stand for we?
Show that black lives matter, fight for unity?
But I’m a let you know we ain’t waitin’ for you
We gonna fight until “all lives matter” too
Before the next one is murdered, we gon’ see this through
And make change with the girls and the boys in blue
Let me also point this out ’fore I continue to rock
The McMichaels, Zimmerman and Roof ain’t cops
So when they murder us in church or on the block
They represent white supremacy and that whole flock
And along with these cops they represent a system
Designed to take a black man and convict and kill him
Aligned to take a black woman and make her a victim
Then put ’em both on trial to dehumanize them
Then put ’em on TV to verbally brutalize them
Then never share stories of these cops and brethren
Then they let these killers prep the same story
And rarely ever charge ’em with a felony
The justice system doin’ what it was built to do
Protect the cops at all costs no matter what they do
But real change is gonna come it’s long overdue
Cause we had something that we never had before…YOU!
Jamar Clark, Breonna Taylor, Ousman Zongo
Cameron Hall, Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo
Tamir Rice, Sean Bell, Jemel Roberson
Eleanor Bumpers, Walter Scott, Fred Hampton
Harith Augustus, EJ Bradford, Trayvon Martin
Lajuana Philips, Antwon Rose, RaShaun Washington
Daniel Simmons, Robert White, Tony Green
Clemente Pickney, Philando, Botham Jean
Sandra Bland, Stephon Clark, Alberta Spruill,
Nathaniel McCoy, Russell, Travares McGill,
Cameron Hall, Yvette Smith, Anthony Hill
John Crawford, Danroy Henry, Emmett Till
Yusef Hawkins, Michael Brown, George Floyd
Jerame Reid, Kayla Baker, Rekia Boyd
Juan Jones, Miriam Carey, Jordan Edwards
Atatania, Ahmaud Arbery, Medgar Evers
Deantea Farrow, Danny Thomas, Linwood Lambert
Marcus David-Peters, Diante, Michael Stewart
Malisa Williams, Claudia Gonzalez,
Ronnell Foster, Prince Jones, Anthony Baez
Jordan Baker, Henry Glover, Tony Robinson
James Brisette, Shem, Tanesha Anderson
Shermichael Ezeff, Freddie Gray, Ronald Madison
Oscar Grant, Ayana Jones, Dondi Johnson
Raheim Brown, Victor Steen, Cedric Chatman
Timothy Thomas, Aaron Campbell, Tarika Wilson
Ajibade, David Raya, Steven Washington
Nehemiah, Orlando, Patrick Dorisman
Ramarley Graham, Terence Crutcher, Daniel Simmons
Manuel Diaz, Alesia, Tamon Robinson
And to all the Chris Coopers and the coulda-beens
Could be you or me tomorrow, we must never give in!
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