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WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES

06 Wednesday Jul 2016

Posted by steviestreets in Insights, Poems, THE BLACK LIVES MATTER COLLECTION

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an eye for an eye, black lives matter, expletive the police, fair game, if they kill me riot, open season, surviving the game

for the freedom fighters: If a picture is worth a thousand words, @shanequagay said it best with #TheFAIRGAMEProject | #blackbodiesmatter
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#codeofthestreets:
Our grandmothers witnessed strange fruit, hanging from a rope,
survived the 50s and the 60s
only to bear witness to the seeds of their seeds being buried behind bars
or strong armed by the long arm of the law.
When you’re Black in America,
“Freedom” is nothing more than a hunger pain
and the justice system…
it’s just a system that says
“A Black Life is Fair Game.”
We hashtag Black Lives Matter
but the Prosecutors hash out “It’s Open Season!”
I wonder why those sworn to protect and serve wanna stop my breathing…
For what it’s worth;
we’ve been Surviving The Game for damn near 960 seasons.
We’ve been catching the same hell
for well over 87,000 days in America…
Have you ever examined the foothold they have on African descendants in America?
It’s a crying shame!
No More Freedom Marches,
No More Cries for Change.
IF THEY KILL ME RIOT;
take an eye for an eye
and an arm for an arm.

We don’t hate the Police
but F#@/ the Police;
as far as I could see,
the Government’s track record
is like needle marks in a dope fiends arm.
But don’t be alarmed
when you’re approached by the Police;
if you treat the disrespectful officers that want to murder you with more respect,
they may not bring forth physical harm.

–@StevieStreets #iftheykillmeriot | WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES: an excerpt from Freedom vol ii

photo credit: http://www.instagram.com/shanequagay

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Black Dollars Matter

27 Friday Nov 2015

Posted by steviestreets in Haiku, Poems, THE BLACK LIVES MATTER COLLECTION

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Even Silence Speaks…

money talks louder than words,

#BlackDollarsMatter!

 

–@StevieStreets | Black Dollars Matter

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Proper Perspective

04 Tuesday Aug 2015

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I never knew you could board a commercial airline with an animal head.

I can’t even make it pass TSA with 3.5 oz of Sportin’ Waves for my head.

I guess my perception is off.

At times, I don’t see the prospective benefits of the law.

Yeah, my perception is off.

 

At times, I am compelled to put my concerns into proper perspectives.

In my proper perspective;

I applaud the major airlines for taking action against the illegal killing of African-Animals.

I wonder when the business sector will take action against the illegal killing of African-Americans.

I imagine the public outcry of Black Lives Matter

does not really matter…

 

At times, I don’t see the prospective benefits of the law.

I guess my perception is off.

When my perception is off,

I take a step back to see new perspectives.

In my proper perspective;

I see past the optical illusions,

I hear what is not said amidst the confusion.

 

At times, I don’t see the prospective benefits of the law.

Yeah, my perception is off.

When my perception is off,

I investigate to gain proper perspectives.

In my proper perspective;

I see they love animals,

it’s only the jungle bunnies they hate.

 

In my proper perspective;

I see you will get sentenced for fighting a pit bull

before you receive an indictment for killing an African-American in the United States.

 

–@StevieStreets | from THE BLACK LIVES MATTER COLLECTION: Proper Perspective

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Good Grief

31 Friday Jul 2015

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You could exemplify the epitome of peace.

Yet they’ll say you should’ve been more polite,

after you’re murdered by the police.

 

Good grief, it’s getting hard to survive.

If they don’t bury you in the system,

if they don’t kill you in the streets,

if they don’t kill you in prison,

they’ll kill your innocence; remember The Central Park Five.

 

I remember when the young black male was the most endangered species in America.

Nowadays, innocent, magnificent African Animals should be protected.

Yet those that have sworn to protect and serve are murdering innocent, magnificent African-American Humans in America.

 

Good grief; the police will fire 50 shots, if you’re an unarmed groom to be in America.

 

Good grief; the police will fire 41 shots, if you’re an unarmed immigrant, sitting on a stoop in America.

 

Good grief; the police will fire 39 shots, if you’re an elderly woman at home alone in America.

 

Good grief; the police will fire 137 shots, if you flee from police in America.

 

The digital era has given the world a glimpse of what inner city districts have witnessed for years.

They will kill you on video, they do not care.

They will kill you with your hands up, they do not care.

Black Lives Matter is the digital equivalent of shedding tears.

 

The war on drugs has ravaged the inner city districts for years.

They make money when the drugs, guns, and violence appear.

They make money when the District Attorneys and the Judges distribute them years.

Black Lives Matter is the digital equivalent of “does anybody care?”

 

Black Lives are being wiped out of society, look at the incarnation rates.

They falsely accuse and over sentence Blacks and Latinos, I’m afraid to substantiate.

 

Black Lives are being wiped out of society, look at the abortion rates.

They gave syphilis and AIDS to Blacks, I’m afraid to procreate.

 

Black Lives are being wiped out of society, at epidemic rates.

Too many mothers and fathers are burying their sons and daughters in the United States.

 

I’m beginning to drown in all of the blood that was spilled in the streets.

I’m beginning to drown in all the tears that were shed in the streets.

Good Grief!

 

–@StevieStreets | Good Grief

 

 

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August 28, 1955 – August 28, 2015

28 Tuesday Jul 2015

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“I saw that his tongue was choked out.

 

I noticed that the right eye was lying on midway – his cheek.

 

I noticed that his nose had been broken like somebody took a meat chopper and chopped his nose in several places.

 

As I kept looking I saw a hole which I presumed was a bullet hole.

 

And I could look through that hole and see daylight on the other side.”

 

-Mamie Till | #BlackLivesMatter: August 1955 – August 2015

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#BlackLivesMatter

25 Saturday Jul 2015

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“A kid gets killed by the police and I buy a T-shirt and before I can wear that one, there’s another kid and I’m running out of closet space.” -David Chappelle | #BlackLivesMatter

 

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