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I saw the thingz that some white people did
I saw it through the eyez of a militant child
"I AM NOT A RACIST"
I knew people who did not look like me did not like me
I don’t know why I would run and hide when I saw the bluest eyez
pressed in the whitest facez
"I AM NOT A RACIST"
I did not know why my pregnant aunt waz laid face down
on the pavement with a white manz foot on the back of her neck
becauze she waz suspected of being Angela Davis
"I AM NOT A RACIST"
I did not know why Wattz became a bed of flamez
I did not know why I waz painted the color of shame
"I AM NOT A RACIST"
I did not know why thoze black men who won Olympic medalz
were stripped of their pride for holding their black, gloved fist up high
"I AM NOT A RACIST"
I did not know why every time black people would congregate they
were dealt a strong hand of hate
"I AM NOT A RACIST"
I did not know why America waz alwayz quick to go to war
when another country spat in her face but we were not
allowed to stand up against injustice done to our own race
I AM NOT A RACIST
I did not know why mama cried when a man name
Martin and a man name Malcolm died
"I AM NOT A RACIST"
I did not know why a man name Hoover formed the FBI
and when he did more and more black people were arrested and died
"I AM NOT A RACIST"
Through my childish militant eyez
white people were the enemiiez and no friend to me
I believed that the goal of the FBI waz to
FOIL
BLACK
INTELLIGENTZ
"I AM NOT A RACIST"
I use to hear big mamaz voice saying
white folkz greatest fear waz intelligent black folz"
I'm composing a note addressed to the pitz of hell that readz
Dear Mr. J.E. Hoover
I regret to inform you that the prezident of theze
United Statez of America
Iz in fact a BLACK MAN
Signed X the black militant child who was born in Watts in 1963
"I AM NOT A RACIST"
2007 © WIZE DOM
