Trayvon is my son

Original Author
Tiny
Original Body

For Trayvon, Ramarley, Oscar and Kenneth Harding and all of their mamaz

 

Trayvon is my son

and my brother and my uncle

and my coz-zin

and that aint no riddle

cuz i am /we r the village

and it aint about the pillage of

senseless killins n racist hate

 

Can u relate?

 

Trayvon is my son

cuz i am/we r the often spoken bout

but never understood one - 

interdependence-mon!

 

Trayvon is my son

n i am crying now for this mama's one

 

but i got to speak bout something else u see

a thing not so clear or easy

the fake concept of security

and

safe space

in a place

they call gated communities

 

how we separate ourselves from each other

from the ones among us who are hated, called names, criminalized, thru lies of

racism and poverty-

turned into the "other"

 

I speak on this as someone always left

truly kept out, and always swept out

under jail house rugs

fetishized titles

and poverty pimped thugs

 

and yet tell me why i can walk down that same street in

in my melanin challenged skin

and i will get no guns or questions

 

GentriFUKEd- and displaced-

thru deep capitalist hate

got us all changed from our African roots

make this mama scream

until i can't even see beyond the oppressors boots

 

cuz what is sad is no matter where u go the racism and hate will always be

or like my strong black indian mama sed-

no matter wut

im still called a nigger in this plantation system

of po'lice, gentrification,&  fake security

 

For trayvon and Ramarley,

Oscar and Kenneth Harding

Dont believe the myth of secure communities,

gates and the flight

away from you and me-

don't believe a 911 call makes u safe

or the conceot that separateness and distance from your people

is behind a gate with a pretty name

its a scam

a hustle

enabling the continuation

of racist, capitalist killin

of each other

 

For us to stop the killin

it means to create our own multi-colored, spirit-filled

un-gated,

without race-hatred,

understanding reparations

communities

filled with you and you,

me and we

 

This is liberation, interdependence, revolution

can u feel me?

 

Join us @  Trayvon is my son-  Scream-Our for Justice on Monday, March 26th @ 12:00 noon in front of the Hall of In-justice @ 850 Bryant st San Francisco

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