Original Post Date
2011-08-08 10:18 PM
Original Body
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Itrsquo;s all about overcoming or a cure/p
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Seeing it as a tax ride off as they throw/p
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Thousands to a cause that they r not sure/p
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Raising money for only one side of the story/p
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Musicians putting on charities/p
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For big time foundations/p
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Got spent on salaries/p
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Feel good documentaries/p
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All about I not the community/p
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Black celebrities cashing in on opportunities/p
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Bigger microphones, span data-scayt_word="bling" data-scaytid="4"bling/span span data-scayt_word="bling" data-scaytid="5"bling/span got the camera/p
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Pulling strings to make important phones ring/p
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Because Autism hit their families/p
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They are still shelter from every day reality/p
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But want Beverly Hills to care/p
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Some become a spokesperson with nothing to say/p
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Causing more bad than good/p
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Taking up space for more face time/p
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Brothers Sisters can we talk for real/p
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Whatrsquo;s on peoplersquo;s minds/p
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Let us educate you/p
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Whatrsquo;s really going on/p
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Wersquo;ve bigger fish to fry/p
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Our Black disabled young men are doing unfair time/p
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Wrongfully incarcerated segregated/p
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Disability is not the problem/p
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Attitudes hinders her/him/p
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In the lost-n-found is his IEP/p
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Dig up after he was profiled/p
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Police the span data-scayt_word="D.A" data-scaytid="1"D.A/span. trying to bury his identity/p
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So where are the Black celebrities for span data-scayt_word="Neli" data-scaytid="6"Neli/span/p
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There is no law/p
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That says you canrsquo;t sit on a libraryrsquo;s lawn/p
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span data-scayt_word="Neli’s" data-scaytid="8"Nelirsquo;s/span mother writing letters to Black leaders/p
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They are too far up/p
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Climbing that ladder/p
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No answers/p
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From big names/p
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Small donations funding this campaign/p
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While the span data-scayt_word="D.O.J" data-scaytid="2"D.O.J/span flip-flopping/p
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span data-scayt_word="Neli" data-scaytid="7"Neli/span is lock down in sever pain/p
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This is only one case/p
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Why do we have to get in your face/p
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To show u raw discrimination base on disability race/p
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Your involvement might be too late/p
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If we have to wait until it happens to your family/p
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One last call/p
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To Black celebrities the Black community/p
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To step up to injustice from police brutality/p
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To profilingnbsp; to hate crimes to rape, understand/p
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If you donrsquo;t answer, blood will be on your hands/p
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Itrsquo;s not all about you/p
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The love of a mother/p
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People power has great numbers/p
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And longer lasting than anything in Hollywood/p
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But just wonder what we can do together/p
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By Leroy Moore/p
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8/4/11/p
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strongPARDON WRONGFULLY CONVICTED AUTISTIC YOUTH, span data-scayt_word="NELI" data-scaytid="9"NELI/span span data-scayt_word="LATSON" data-scaytid="10"LATSON/span!/strong/p
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http://span data-scayt_word="www.change.org" data-scaytid="3"www.change.org/span/petitions/span data-scayt_word="pardon-wrongfully-convicted-autistic-youth-neli-latson" data-scaytid="11"pardon-wrongfully-convicted-autistic-youth-neli-latson/span/p