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