By Jill McLaughlin
A Twisted verdict came down today
Goddam it takes my breath away
And What that jury really meant to say
"Shoot a Black for free, you don’t gotta pay"
I read somewhere as the cops pulled them from the train
Oscar called to people, "Ya all be cool"
He wasn’t gonna play their fool
But see they don’t teach you in school
if Black in America it don’t matter what you’re doing
you can be loud, you can be quiet, you can be walking, you can be
working, you can be poor, you can be doing alright for yourself, you can
be a Harvard professor, you can be a radical, you can be running, you
can be funning, you can be sleeping
all you’re really good for is a jail cell or police shooting
I can hear Oscar’s ancestors crying, hear Sean’s and Aiyana’s too
long history of toiling and dying, moments of really living too few.
A woman sang it best back then about Alabama, Tennessee and
Mississippi.
Tonight it’s Oakland goddam, but everybody knows it’s from sea to
shining sea.
Goddam
A white police officer here in the Toledo area shot a white male in the back and paralyzed him. He got jail time. A white female police officer shot a black female who was mentally I\’ll and killed her. She was cleared. Yet, no one sees racism at play. Amazing!
@superstar
So you think shooting unarmed Black men is Ok? That’s pretty twisted thinking on your part…and just the kind of thinking that perpetuates this kind of murderous racism and allows this system to get away with these kinds of crimes.
The police officer should get a medal for shooting that drug dealer piece of shit. At least the rent-a-protesters got some looting in though right?