Here we are again
On the highway of injustice
At the crossroads of racial discrimination
At the boulevard of segregation
At the checkpoint of black oppression
Here we are again
Where is the total emancipation you promised us?
Where is our freedom to be black?
Why do you have us on overwatch on your over the counter watchlists?
What do we need to do to prove to you that we’ve earned our place on the high table?
Why do you still poach us like animals?
Why is white privilege still a thing in the 21st century?
Here we are again
You removed the shackles
Yet we’re still getting the invincible tackles
You say you’re tired of our protest
So why don’t you take your time to retrospect?
You give us so much hate
Yet expect us to wait on Fate?
This is how racism really tastes.
Here we are again
Our only inheritance has been suppression
Declining our self-image and breaking our self-esteem has become an ode.
Living in a world where the system has been built against us for no reason,
Keeping us locked up through all seasons.
Living in a world that tells us that “The color of our skin makes us less human beings.”
Here we are again
Pitted against each other like pieces on a chessboard
Corrupted minds that have been brainwashed with white lies hiding black truths.
Living on hand-outs that always run out
Where is our Way Out?
Here we are again
A people still fighting to belong
A people still looking over their shoulders
A people infected with the western virus
Yet, A people with nothing left to lose.
Here we are again
You may lynch us
You may throw us overboard on the high seas
You may burn and skin us as the KKK did
You may sweep us under the rug
But we will stay silent no more!
Here we are again
Asking the same old question,
“Will black lives ever matter??”
Authored by Darcess Dossen
Featured picture by Freepick
