From Watts to Ferguson

[kpete]

Listen To ‘I Am Mike Brown,’ The Song That’s Bringing Revolution To Radio:
http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2014/08/15/3471765/i-am-mike-brown-game-changer/

(Snippet)

“They let Zimmerman off, this cop ain’t learn from Trayvon.
I’m just sitting here dropping a little tear and knowledge,
because Mike Brown didn’t even live to see a day of college.
He would have started soon, now there’s an empty seat in class.
All because of these demons hiding behind a badge.”

And this is what becomes of youth
Arm and arm with desire
Standing staunch facing abuse
Before a funeral pyre

Youth inbred with courage and past
Arm and arm with desire
Stand before weapons en masse
Falcons in loosening gyre

To see faces young and unlined
Witness new history unfold
Is to know the past as so unkind
Lessons unlearned, agony untold

This is what becomes of a youth
Where bondage is original sin
Buried with denial at its root
As if the crime had never been

Not as if one turns a page
To find a new, happy ending
Black skin will always pre-sent rage
Some unfailing and unbending

And so our youth confronts it all;
Our transgressions of the past
Those shot will scream and fall
As we parse a truce that failed to last

~ Gwen Davis-Feldman © 8/14/14

http://gwensworld.net/...
http://gwensworld.net/2014/08/14/from-watts-to-ferguson/