I had nuff of politician’s bluff slangin’ empty promises on the maid-2-order line under the guise of sumthin good like leave no child behind

Hold up swine! Press Rewind Wasn’t it you who put the lashes on the backs of my kind? Got my mamma workin’ her fingers to the rind!

How ‘bout leavin’ no child behind bars? Helpin’ ‘em reach for the stars not Star Wars trying to level out your oil desperate scores

Succumbing to the threat of your billy-clubbing police force their financial aid debt getting worse lured by the white horse that came in on your federal concourse

In dis country it’s easy to make a livin’ killin’ folks turning your bureaucratic cheeks to a couple of tokes better yet, lock ‘em up make his life suck then you’d get paid for all the dreams you delayed

Make him hungry and hand him a gun You can blame his parents when you’re done

Making his family pay taxes but with no decent job Keepin’ up with the Jones’ inciting him to rob.

You say you got no money for books but I wunda how much money those weapons took

You say you got no money to fix the streets in my community but what about all the boots on the cadets in Unit B?

Tryin’ to holla at the boys on da stoop to don rifles and cross your “so called” shining sea with false hopes of supporting their family

But you forgot to mention their forefathers fell prey to the same deception

In DC there’s a wall naming dozens of beautiful black, brown, and yellow men who once stood tall and for this country learned the true art of how to fall

You taught us to pray You taught us to slay but the real strong soldiers taught us to think for ourselves Put bureaucratic hypocrisy on the shelves

We’re much more than your average savage Just ‘cause you can pursue a pilgrimage rape and pillage makin’ the world your village don’t mean the masses of minorities won’t form a majority Join hands and demand a recall to truly achieve liberty and justice for all!!

– Melissa Chadburn (ycl@yclusa.org)