Getting Hard To Breathe

If you encountered a beast looking for something to eat
Are you going to fight at least or lay there and let it feast?
I'm sure that I know the answer so edify my mind please
Why do you preach peace when it comes to crooked police?
Why do you place the responsibility of their actions on me?
Is it that you have blinders on and voluntarily choose not to see?
Are you one of those folks who secretly want us back in slavery?
They're killing my people and constantly getting away scot-free
We scream black lives matter because that's what we're trying to believe
But we're being deceived because our lives don't matter is what I see
Our lives matter to me but obviously justice we will not receive
How is it that they are legally gunning us down in these streets?
There're never any repercussions and it's getting hard for me to breathe
Condolences to Eric Garner's family and may he rest in eternal peace