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What Did You Do

What did you do to be white
Why does that make you always right

Born into privileged by race
The humanity you disgrace

Two thirds a human being by law
Jim Crow skirting its flaw

Civil Rights codified by statue
Voting rights gerrymander by venue

Prison filled with poor black men
No bail plea bargaining innocent condemn

A cigarette a bag of skedaddles
A Black Lives matter a riddle

Choked to death at the hands of the law
An evil heart the white mans flaw

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020




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