"Because Your Hood Was Black" -- Dedication to Trayvon Martin

Oh Florida, (Damn! Damn! Damn!) a flower that failed to bloom

When power of the people is only standing room

When force is majeure and government ignores

Blue bloods, now new bloods, turned into red,

Our young “hood” was shot dead

Ida B Wells, no, we’re not doing good

When the sign of danger is all in a hood

Men riding horses draped in white, now uncovered faces, kill in plain sight

Danger! Danger! It’s about to go down

What did you think? Don’t come to my town

Because if you do, then I will pursue

And you better step back --- because your hood is Black

Race relations, are just a demonstration

Of how it’s supposed to be, in the land of the free

May Sybrina’s sorrows – shake up the tomorrows, so that we lose not one more

But between you and I, if we had the choice who would die

You’d rewind time, four hundred years, and take me back

(Why) Because my hood is Black

Ida B Wells, no, we’re not doing good

When the sign of danger is all in a hood

Men riding horses draped in white, now uncovered faces, kill in plain sight

Danger! Danger! It’s about to go down

What did you think? Don’t come to my town

Because if you do, then I will pursue

And you better step back --- because your hood is Black

Equality? Even Rocky wore his hood –yes, a champion, taking down Apollo

That was his creed, by TKO was the goal – ya’ ya’ it’s only a movie we know, just a role.

But white faces divided by wrong places, leaves the remainder of one less son

The neighborhood was “watching”, but they couldn’t see, past the color of a hood that was supposed to be -- equal

Meaning both sides are balanced, but even Lady Justice’s scales are tipped

Not in our favor, only our Savior, we’ll see one day, will even that field

But until then, you win -- you and your partners continue to hide behind their shields

And badges, not of merit -- but dishonor, to the code, you’ve erode for your gain.

Ida B Wells, no, we’re not doing good

When the sign of danger is all in a hood

Men riding horses draped in white, now uncovered faces, kill in plain sight

Danger! Danger! It’s about to go down

What did you think? Don’t come to my town

Because if you do, then I will pursue

And you better step back --- because your hood is Black

Stereotyping? Then hit the letter WHY

And tell me the answer, to the pregunta, that’s the question

About “Zs” -- yes, we’re sleeping, even after full confession – profession,

Of the cause, but what’s the effect? When we reject, the laws of humanity,  harmony and love?

Or does it apply, only to a select few of the ones who think they’re above –

Since when does man’s law trump God’s law – of the commandment – thou shall not kill – but still

We call it justice – when “just us” are reduced by the bullet called “stand your ground” – you stand, I’ll lay – down – because my hood is Black.

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