I wonder…I wonder why black men die
I think…
I think police use black men as target practice
confusing black target silhouettes with black men
I think police need to think before they press
And stop thinking black men are less
I wonder…I wonder why black men die
Then I get it ... It's obvious
when it's a white man
No one has to cry
Cuz white men
They don't die
This is how it goes...
White man with a gun
Let's talk this through son
Black man with a gun
Man you better not run
White man with a gun
Let's shoot him in the leg
Black man with a gun
Oh my god, he's a powder keg
I think...
Police need to stop and think
I need police to stop and think
What if that were your son, your husband, your friend
Would you still think it's okay to shoot that man
When is the country going to wake up
When is the country going to stop puttin' up
When is the country going to understand
I am a man before you see the color of my skin
Don't you understand
I am a black MAN
melanated in an array of hues from cream to blue black
I breathe, I bleed, I cry
I read…
I read the stories of how I better watch my back
I read the stories of how I can be dead just cuz I'm black
I read about the white man that went free
I read that that's just never ever ever gonna be me
I fear for my life
Every second of the day
I fear for my son
Just being out to play
I fear for my life
Every second of the day
I fear for my young boy
When he's just gone out to play
What's the matter with this world
That thinks a black man's life is nothing
What's the matter with this world
Just shoot him… I'm not bluffing
It's hard to understand
Why people don't understand
I'm just like every other man
Trying to be following my own plan
It doesn't include dying
It doesn't include my mother crying
It doesn't include anything else but me trying
Trying to make my own way
Trying to get through this day
Trying to live my hopes and dreams
But yet it seems
That the white man just wants to make me
A meme