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Reconstruction Endgame\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Those who live history are condemned to learn it.
Oh! snap your fingers Thanos and make half of all of this shit go away<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
I want to lose the half that had the lynchings and the chains
James Byrd Jr. in Texas
Trayvon Martin in Florida
(Stand your ground)
Eric Garner in Brooklyn\u00a0
(I can\u2019t breathe!)
Cause of death selling loosies\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Church Burnings and shootings
Synagogue and Mosque Massacres
And don\u2019t forget the high schools and The Trenchcoat Mafias
Then\u00a0
And yet to come
A long time comin\u2019
Came and went.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The false hope and the misplaced optimismDon\u2019t let them turn you into a Black Minstrel in Whiteface, Barrack
I want to hear you sing
Nobody Knows the Trouble I\u2019ve Seen: the remix<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
But sing it like an R&B singer\u00a0
During this reconstructed Reconstruction\u00a0
Remind us how to have faith and hope and love
Because hoping IS audacious.
Call your debut solo album Stolen Legacy 3.0 the citizen years
And
Endeavor to persevere<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Do we really have to live this time line
Or can our future be changed?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Let all the White girls sing\u00a0\u00a0
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
And take a walk on the wild side\u00a0
Attend hot yoga classes in $200 leotards anywhere you want
Because\u00a0
Global warming is everywhere<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Take off your pretty pink
Knitted kitten hats
And please don\u2019t have 52% of you vote for a male finger fucker.
Your soup can reality shaped by
Facebook posts, Instagram and reTweets
Hope and Change
In this Reconstruction End Game<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Death, walk on an ocean of blood
And sacrifice your children to achieve your ends
Kill affordable healthcare
What do you care?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
You are old and will retire in comfort
Then turn to dust
In a universe rebuilt in your image<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Turn the dreams into nightmares
And snuff hope out, oh! you retroactive abortionist
Protect the unborn but kill the fully grown
Pray to Capitalism and jesus\u2122\ufe0f
Hug the flag but kill the mothers
And veto UN resolutions condemning rape as a tool of war<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Avengers Assemble!!!!!
The children of D.W. Griffith are marching on Charlottesville\u00a0
And in Neo-Imperial Coronations\u00a0\u00a0
Rebirth of a Nation: the sequel\u00a0
Non-colorful costumes embossed with runic symbols
Illumined by tiki torches carried by the very fine.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
But then, D.C. invented the dark hero-vers\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Someone tried to teach me this story when I was little\u00a0
But I thought
Who wants to learn this old shit
Teach me about Kennedy, and King
Or Malcolm, or Patrice Lumumba
Teach me about Mau Mau\u00a0
And Eldridge\u00a0
I want to learn how to say my name in Swahili
And figure out why our favorite musicians are all blind and wear dark sunglasses<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Put us on television and accept us into colleges
I want to dance to Miriam Makeba’s Pata Pata\u00a0
And look fly in an Ivory Coast Dashiki\u00a0
My Afro glittering with oily Johnson hair care products
Then in this time line\u00a0
Someday I\u2019ll hear a Black poet laureate recite:
And Still I Rise<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
But today if I took the Pulse of the Morning\u00a0
Today when congressional subpoenas can simply be ignored
Today when 400-page Mueller Reports can be summarized with four pages of lies
Today when Obama is the hope that dare not speak its name
If I took The Pulse of this morning\u00a0
It would be dead
Killed by the same stories I wouldn\u2019t learn as a child<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
But those who live history\u00a0
Are condemned to learn it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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