{"id":10803,"date":"2016-07-22T15:17:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T19:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uropcbrp.com\/?p=10803"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:05:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:05:38","slug":"week-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2016\/07\/22\/week-9-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being black ain’t free is cost\u00a0us our youth<\/p>\n

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\u00a0We learned at an early age we can’t do what other kids do<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
We paying attention to the world cuz those our brothers \u00a0that we seeing on the news<\/div>\n
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Everything is not black and white<\/div>\n
But what I’ve learned in my short life that blacks have limited rights<\/div>\n
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Protection of the law comes few and far between<\/div>\n
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You can’t even catch a break if yell out \u00a0“I can’t breathe”<\/div>\n
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You can’t carry a gun in an open carry state if you’d do some white police officer will soon decide your fate<\/div>\n
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When the issues of rights come up everybody looks left<\/div>\n
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Cause people think this is a game the ones \u00a0with money get to be the \u00a0refs<\/div>\n
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Life is just one bad cal after another<\/div>\n
Like failure to indict unless it’s against a brother<\/div>\n
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All lives matter when white people are scared then the black lives need medical help and the situation needs to be repaired<\/div>\n
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We are only fighting for our existence to be acknowledged \u00a0and respected.<\/div>\n
All we got is knowledge and we’re just tryna protect it<\/div>\n
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We know how the systems work<\/div>\n
We know yes mam and yes sir<\/div>\n
We know how to work work work until our knuckles bleed and our backs hurt<\/div>\n
only to stay at the bottom and to be stuck in the city while were kept out of white burbs<\/div>\n
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We wanted to grow as a people but settled for being “equal”<\/div>\n
Sometimes I feel like the 60s was just the prequel<\/div>\n
Because this cycle of evil is transparent and therefore your intentions I see through<\/div>\n
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Black lives matter was made to acknowledge our presence<\/div>\n
but the phrase \u00a0gets \u00a0a bad wrap cause we now consider our blackness a present<\/div>\n
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To be young gifted and black means that you know what it means to pick up the slack<\/div>\n
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The slack that has been placed on your shoulders, to carry the weights that act as boulders to anchor you to your roots, and to bear knowledge, like a tree with strange fruit.<\/div>\n
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Black can be excellent \u00a0with big hair, nice Jay’s, and tattoos.<\/div>\n
We can be successful without confirming to chemical relaxers, and whack suits.<\/div>\n
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Don’t believe us just watch and our black youth and we will show you what our black do<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being black ain’t free is cost\u00a0us our youth \u00a0We learned at an early age we can’t do what other kids do We paying attention to the world cuz those our brothers \u00a0that we seeing on the news Everything is not black and white But what I’ve learned in my short life that blacks have limited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dcbrp-2015"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15874,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803\/revisions\/15874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}