M.Y. State of Mind, Pt. 2

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Stop and ask, am I not your fellow man?
Born and raised on the streets where America's first motors ran
Same streets where race riots and innocent blood ran
City ravaged by white flight, followed by mass blight
Son of Egyptian parents born with a chance to take flight
Left the Nile, for Motown to build America right
No denial, with a strange name and appearance
Born indifferent to the differences between US
A faith made notorious, too quickly prosperous
Just too religious, don't I fit among us

Celebrate those of us who build and innovate in the US
Who dares to question our loyalty and status
Because we came to educate and create business
So industrious and save lives in the US
Filtered through a lens, our heroes must be cleansed, to be like us
Tirelessly buzzing labels of thugs and terrorists
They pray to define us
Without bias, pray the pious
Patriots Actin' to spy on us
Don't let your faith be conspicuous
Dare to speak truth to power
They preach hate to empower
Many weak, shake and cower
The factions of US that hates to change
They don't know or understand why we act so strange
Demands to assimilate and speak like US
Or un-American aspersions shall get cast
Forgetting your past, you are doomed to repeat the sins of the past

Imperialist strategy to manipulate us
Deployed by various actors
A domestic and global stage with multiple factors
Divide and conquer us
Protracted conflicts from Flint to Damascus
A battle over values the liberators sold us
Secret caches of nuclear weapons they told us
Sold sovereignty abroad, just preposterous,
Bank rolled with defense budgets prodigious
Neocons run offense with schemes so salacious
Rulers folded, its superfluous
Fools molded, let them control us
Cruel police, patrol with a focus
Tools like mass incarceration
Racial and class exploitation
Like a new version of Jim Crow
Subtler, still deadly but you won't know
Allows us to get paid and make buckets like Abdul-Rauf
Until you don't stand in line, get canceled, Mahmoud's livin proof

How much damage is done
By those sworn to serve and protect
Corruption with a badge and a gun
Shoot first, create excuses later
Some of our blood it doesn't even matter
Like clockwork, cops commit crime
News broadcasts louder than a mime
Time after time, like Earvin drops dimes
Transforming narratives like Optimus Prime
Forgetting victims like they on a slave ship
Ship them off to prison like Amazon Prime
No suspect, just arrest and inspect
Plant to fabricate, like Magic, it's Showtime
A system of laws, juries and judges that don't protect
Incredulous and angry, feel like an insect
A modern day caste system singles you out
Until one day it catches you, wonder what's it about

It's time to wake up these polarized masses
Of easily herded elephants and asses
it's like a Jedi mind trick
How our officials politic
Congressional gridlock, it won't stop
Lobbyists and kingpins control the shop
Controlled from the top
Inflationary bubble it won't pop
Medical bills and tuition costs won't drop
Economic flop, more war bombs drop
Draft more dropouts, we'll send in the troops
Hittin foreign ground with more boots
Time to dig deeper into our grass roots
A real movement to shake up spineless elected suits

Only when cruelty hits home will an epiphany flow
From your heart to your mind
Wiping layers of fearful hate, turns your soul kind
Unwind the strands of prejudice driving you blind
A mercy to mankind you would surely find
Open your eyes to see a more holistic picture
A message perfectly played by our walking scripture
I ain't preaching but for the sake of teaching
Uncovering truth lost in our universal history
We all search for purpose in a life twisted in mystery
It takes the whole of us to make the U.S. the place to be
Not a slogan on a red hat, peddled like crack
Time for America to take its integrity back

Remember, we hold these truths to be self evident
Can't make fake news, into truths not even the president
A duty to wake up and resist the crimes around us
The trajectory of our path veers too perilous
A united vision for our states seems too miraculous
Time to release US from arrogance and bigotry
Time to embrace us with empathy and humility
Vote for righteousness, hold to account those who oppress US
A living, breathing Constitution, such genius...a true American hero
It cannot judge us, or tell us to stay silent, go back from whence we came
For some, equal rights were earned by fighting this rigged game
What if power came to someone with a foreign name
What of our freedom, our rights and values...will they ever be the same
Time to understand America's true heroes they come and rise
Not just from wearing a flag or pledging loyalty with no compromise
Not from fake celebrity or having the right ancestry
But from those who sacrificed to breakdown evil hypocrisy
To ascend to a standard of shared human values, steeped in sincerity
Learn from the American heroes who rose up for their dignity
Demanding and sacrificing by any means necessary
To bravely reject our static condition
To continue the pursuit with equal ambition
To power, wealth and education
Struggle to establish a more just nation

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