Everything’s Political

p style="margin-bottom: 0in"span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"Poverty is politics/span/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Racism is politics/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Sexism is politics/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Classism is politics/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Capitalism, politics/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Fuck those politics /font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"nbsp;/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"We live in ghettos, neighborhoods where they put all the colored folks, cause everythingrsquo;s political /font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Poverty is permanent, thatrsquo;s how itrsquo;s designed, got to be careful, cause it fucks with your mind/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Many get stuck sucking liquor from the liquor store, or they try to go and rob that liquor store/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"So white folks making big bucks from the prison and the store, everythingrsquo;s political/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"nbsp;/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"The radio tells kids to kill their brother, disrespect their sister and mother, and never teaches them to be a father/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Corporate execs, created a hip hop subset, called trap music, telling kids to carry techs, pop pills and flip bricks, for a little bit of cheese/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"With out telling them that the guns, drugs and tracks all coming from the place, racists, who want to put us in a social basement/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Everything political/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"nbsp;/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"As a kid I grew up in a single bedroom, with my whole family, parents paying rent, thatrsquo;s life in the hood/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Solitary confinement for me, parents didnrsquo;t want me playing up in the streets, too hot, like the sweatshop where they work at/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"They decided to return to Aztlan in the eighties, ignorant people canrsquo;t comprehend the importance of migration, so they call em illegal and threaten us with deportation/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Talking bout these goons, who up to high school, try telling me theyrsquo;re cool, in their textbooks that you read in public school/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Like a fool fell for it, cause on TV all you see is fucking myths telling you believe that bull, that will make you brain rot and stop having thoughts/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Happens a lot in the hood, where there are no books, and on top of that nobody reads, but everybody watches TV/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Everythingrsquo;s political/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"nbsp;/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"In Carver middle school no one talked about what college they going too, they already want to go pro, trying to impress the scouts, hoping they get drafted to join the local gang /font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Thatrsquo;s all they seen since they were two, family in it too, or not around to tell em not to/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Token teacher a sell out, lying to the kids, creating a reality by saying theyrsquo;re nothing/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"The kids take it seriously and out of anxiety to prove the teacher wrong, they join a crew/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Happens everyday in LAUSD classrooms, multiplied by all the shitty districts on earth /font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Those who werenrsquo;t part of that were still around that, cause no one cares about school, no studying just surviving, since it reflects a mini prison/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"In Santee high nothing seem to change, shit just kept on getting strange, teachers meaner, and the students demeanor, that of a prisoner/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"One trying to get off by doing good behavior or one doing life, but nonetheless a prisoner/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Slaves getting trained to do modern day servitude, wheatear you drop out of school or graduate/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Chances are your fate is minimum wage, or no pay in the pen where they work you like an animal/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Everythingrsquo;s political/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"nbsp;/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Many buy the lies they spread in society; swag, class, and that so they stay stuck on a fake dream/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Suddenly when you try replicate all you see on the screens, you get angry because it aint happening/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Then take it out on everybody without realizing the impossibility of what yoursquo;re trying to complete/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Fantasy is something that canrsquo;t be in reality, your just wasting energy instead of helping family/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"That was me/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"What a fallacy, that damages the vision of your most important eye, making the maze, the ghetto is, harder to escape/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"I escaped, momentarily, barely, I believe, because I had both parents backing me, not saying they were perfect, but they believed in me/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"First year in university I was so sick, was still a prisoner inside my head, blamed myself for the systematic inequalities I lived/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Without even knowing what that means, or that, that was and is my reality, a brown working class man in this society /font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Second year, had my awakening, dropping econ for poli sci, picking up chicana studies, and a black studies class/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Actually began to read, and started to see, clearly with the eye inside my mind Malcolm, Bobby, Huey and Gloria all spoke to me/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Political theories and philosophies helped me understand the situation, and see how those in power crate them through manipulation /font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"So now I know, that everything is political/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"nbsp;/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Be political but donrsquo;t fall for the system, inspect everything with your mind, and you decided whatrsquo;s right/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"If we realize they depend on us, prey on us to keep their empires alive, then we can save lives /font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Donrsquo;t believe all lies they show on social media, TV, Radio, and the movies, thatlsquo;s how they trick and deceive/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"The system donrsquo;t care about us, matter of fact, they have fuck shit up for us, for them to have their crap/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"To create this country, they stole our land, to make all their money, they made us slave, and to maintain order, they send us to war/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"How is it possible? Well everythingrsquo;s political, and they control the corrupt political system/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Itrsquo;s all rigged, that what we got to see, but the systems got you tapped and you cant react /font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"But just look at whatrsquo;s happing around the world, freedom means bomb, peace means missiles, love means borders, and aid, is racism /font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Everything is backwards and many believe it, thatrsquo;s because they donrsquo;t know, how everything is political/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"When you rearrange your focus and long term goals, anything is possible, even freedom for the hoods /font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Yeah you heard right, if you disagree with that, yoursquo;re upholding the right and their system, fuck that and them/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"nbsp;/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"This my politic, since everything political /font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"nbsp;/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Take care and love those around you the most, because theyrsquo;re your people, they define you/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"They created you, so be careful what you do, love yourself, why would you hurt them and yourself/font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Love people unconditional, think critical, and see reality for what it is, how everyonersquo;s is suffering for the greed of their politic /font/p p style="margin-bottom: 0in"font face="Arial, serif"Most importantly do everything for your communities; solidarity is key, thatrsquo;s how wersquo;ll be free /font/p