As the world is torn asunder...
By the great loss of innocent life,
As we begin to see the results
From years of pain and strife,
As the hope that lit the way
Begins to wither and fade,
Love is no longer needed
To fill the space
Where justice should be placed.
Gone are the days of negritudal deficiency, where the truth is hidden from the hulking mass of the Negro proletariat; where we are led to believe that justice is just as blind as love and that we shall be given our just desserts, by and by. Where the model minority is believed to be the model for people who are considered minorities; held to a double standard that never existed for those who hold us to that standard. What happens when the repeat offender isn't Black but is yet considered a minority who preys on other minorities? How did Cyrus Carmack Belton feel when he was shot in the back after being chased down and murdered by someone of a different minority? With that being said, there are more important things to worry about than Jay-Z's hair.
There are momentary lapses in learned helplessness; where we are lucid and more aware of our current predicament. Where we can acknowledge that representation is not meaningful and cannot take the place of a transformative agenda, reducing the movement toward a worthy and progressive ideal to a battle to be seen and heard without anything substantive to say. As we sit around debating about innocuous verses from an aged rappers school aged soliloquy, taking shots at other aged rappers, we become less aware of the fact that our community is being targeted not just by supremacists but by minorities who have been indoctrinated with the same ideology. If you are unaware I don’t care about Jay-Z’s hair. We have more important things to worry about.
Desensitized by the lies
That allow us to become victimized
By turning us into the victimizers
Letting other people go free
Who assert that they have sovereignty
Over those they murder with impunity
A young life lost
For the price of a bottle of water
Cries lasting for an eternity
Born out of a deep resentment
And a projection of
Negritudal deficiency
Desensitized by lies
That allow us to become victimized
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-gas-station-shooting-cyrus-carmack-belton-c3524f0bdfd9c9f3368033b2e9ddef7e
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