The Black Agenda

The Black Agenda

 

America, you’ve indebted millions of young black people and most don’t have the degrees. America, you’ve shot us, used tear gas and even hung us from trees.

America, you’ve put many fathers in prison and thrown away their keys. America, you’ve arrested us in our homes and knelt on our neck with your knees.

 

When we said we couldn’t breathe, it’s because we’ve been inhaling for years. When George took his last grasp of air, we overcame our fears.

The black agenda is alive and well, and it has matured to adulthood.

We will no longer tolerate racism and prejudice treatment, even the NFL understood.

 

Obama cared about our health and wellness, he wanted us to live. So private insurance can’t be the only option that you give.

Our prescriptions must be different, because our visions of the world contrast. We fear our next police encounter will be our next and last.

 

We know, the system won’t be happy until it sees a black man in debt. It won’t be happy until another knee is on a neck.

We won’t be happy until we never bounce another check. We won’t be happy until an officer shows us respect.

 

The system won’t be happy until it sees a head in a prison bed. It won’t be happy until black children think read is red.

We won’t be happy until jumpsuits turns to robes instead.

We won’t be happy until our future generations are no longer mislead.

 

We have to reinvest the black dollar; white allies reinvest yours too.

Vote with your money and shop at a store owned by someone that doesn’t look like you. Someone that’s more my hue, put the money back into local business.

If we treated mom and pop like Target imagine what we’d witness. When the fear starts to subside, and the business district expands. Don’t kick the people of color out include them in your plans.

 

America you found a way to give the Japanese and natives their reparations. We haven’t saw a dollar or a cent, we need some explanations.

So, divide the tax dollars evenly during your towns appropriations.

Make sure the schools that serve majority minorities get the proper allocations.

 

Take the metal detectors out if positivity and hope is what you want to build within. Take the pipeline out of the prison if pride is what you want in a black citizen.

And the 13th amendment needs to be amended again.

You should not become property on the basis of a single sin.

Or because a case you couldn’t win, explain why we aren’t paying public defenders more? I want a Harvard graduate serving as my representation, even if I’m poor.

 

Push to practice community policing and even rewrite the training course. Punish every cop that abuses the badge regardless of if they show remorse. Simple rule, no paid leave, if they can’t breathe.

Another rule, if they try to deceive, take away all they achieved.

Malcolm X may have had a point; we should all get our license to carry a gun. But let us protest with our rifles we would surely be done.

 

To the media on the TV that’ll tell a vision through a program.

We need greater visibility of black excellence from here to Birmingham.

Princess Tiana is not enough, Blackish is not enough, Black Panther not enough, Wakanda is not enough, basketball not enough, football is not enough, Power is not enough.

Show the world the historic Kingdoms of Africa, or is that story too tough? You’ve told stories of drugs and violence with no hesitation.

 

So stop, do your part rebuilding the image of blackness in this divided nation.

You told the story of slavery, showing Kunta’s screams in pain that gruesome night. Tell the story of Mansa Musa the richest man that ever lived, who’s face isn’t white. We shouldn’t just idol Mike, Jordan or Jackson.

Proper portrayals of our people’s greatness, that’s all we’re asking.

 

They think we have no bread and no bargaining chips.

We the people stand united; Election Day is what we’re bargaining with.

Umar said the black community should unionize and let them fight for our vote. I bet then we’ll see these parties plan something more substantial than hope.

Democrats have failed us and Republicans already had their chances. Let’s hold our 13% hostage, make them pass legislation that advances. Let it be known now that the black vote is no longer free.

When we approach the register this November 3rd, our support will come with a fee.