Hope
Jay Brees
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I can't breathe 400 years, no 40 acres, no mule just Cruel, unjust rules made by fools, thus Implanted rules in our schools so they could school us Rule us from over the eyes is where the wool must be removed Cause they know just what fuels us, but they scared to duel us Who standing on that stool, us, who make everything cool, us Make they women drool, us, they say that we can't swim But who be jumping in that pool, us They wanna be us, but they don't wanna see us So they beat us and mistreat us And lock us down and leave us And when one does step up and they do try to free us They get locked away before they ever get a chance to see us They built up America, they got us for our labor They quick to stare at us like they did us a favor It wasn't fair for George Floyd, for Breonna Taylor Who could've helped him breathe cause she was an EMT And it's hard to see how far are we When Amad Aubrey was just jogging See these scars will bleed cause the wounds are still open In this land of the free we still hoping Black, black man jogging, causing no problems Gets gunned down by his son and his father And it would've went unsolved if no one had saw it Whole world saw it, got thrown in the closet Until another causing by the woman who's falling Dead by eight shots up in her own apartment You've seen the flaws in it, you know the cause of it If you got the target then how is she still targeted Days later, over a petty case of forgery George Floyd would be on the ground While a member of the force would be mishandling him forcefully Fortunately somebody recorded it While he forced his knee for nine minutes yelling I can't breathe They mad we fighting, you know that the right's in it You know something ain't right when you know there's mostly whites in it I care about struggle and I care about the peace But if it does mean that then defund the police We built up America, they got us for our labor They quick to stare at us like they did us a favor It wasn't fair for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor Who could've helped him breathe cause she was in the EMT And it's hard to see how far are we When Amad Aubrey was just jogging See these scars will bleed cause the wounds are still open In this land of the free we still hoping
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