Deeper Than

Slavery is not the end of atrocities Suffered by minority communities The every day systematic sway Of bricks piled against you like A wall of pain So many bricks The millions murdered for simply being Who they were born to be black brown red But of these I speak of what I know firsthand The professional personal political assassination of the collective black character is so deep It is astonishing ingrained and denied to be a thing For instance because there was a black president In this racist country people say there you have equality Nope A system built on the back of blacks That promotes hate of anything black Saving a few teachers pets Does not save the souls of those Still being oppressed stressed and put to death Schools are the battleground as well We are not even teaching the truth freely Jim Crow is alive and well look it up The systems of government are used and abused To keep people from getting the American Dream The poor displaced and disgraced Taxed to the max While the rich enjoy perks less tax relax When I walk in a store I am sized up and categorized followed by security I may get service But only if I look affluent enough and Sometimes not even then Depending on the store and area When my brother walks down the street Do you clutch your purse No really If he doesn’t style himself just so Is he perceived as less than When he goes to the bank for a loan How often will he be denied Or unfairly penalized It’s deeper than slavery We are still here suffering despite being Called American we are treated Not even as well as foreigners Who seek asylum Where is that for the brown red black people It’s not being able to fairly compete for jobs When corporate snobs want degrees and experience But how do you get one before the other When you don’t qualify for loans Or go in so much debt for college That the dream is deferred Or you get the job but the pay Is poor because you can’t afford the degree Never mind you are doing the job perfectly So you must get multiple jobs to eat I’m so sick of saying that marginalized Systematic racism in America is more than what happened then it is what is happening today now And by the looks of it what the future holds As the systems of old have not been replaced!