Wake Up

"Why do the poor keep on turning to crime    
Instead of finding decent jobs and showing up for work on time?"  
Just keep traveling along that school to prison pipeline    
It doesn't matter if their crimes were violent or benign    
   
"But they're degenerates    
We're too generous    
With our benefits    
They don't need our government assistance    
They'll just spend it on all their drug addictions",    
We keep hitting them with all of these convictions    
While our profiling increases racial friction    
   
We pride ourselves being a country founded on diversity    
Even as white students are filling universities    
We act like we're so flawless    
But if racism's abolished    
Why do we need affirmative action to get black kids into college?    
   
When are we finally going to stop    
Oppressing minorities    
Too many trigger happy cops    
Fuck the authorities    
Government gets no respect    
Until we sort out our priorities    
Headlines about death    
I don't want to read any more of these    
Why should I stand for the flag    
While news is filled with horror stories?    
   
Children getting locked up at our borders    
Cold ICE agents "just following orders"    
These people are called leeches    
By self-righteous Trump supporters    
While our country's getting fleeced    
By all those wealthy loot hoarders    
   
This fixation on immigration    
These family separations    
A mass of deportations    
Does this make us a great nation?    
   
We all sit back in our chairs    
And talk like we care    
Rant on social media about how it's so unfair    
We put the act in activism    
Most of us just lack the vision    
As long as our fridges are packed in our kitchens    
   
We're just virtue signaling    
Sharing thoughts won't to do a thing    
To assist the people that are really struggling    
We accuse asylum seekers of gang related smuggling    
Without trying to understand    
The terrors faced in foreign lands    
They come in hopes of granting their children better lives    
Without having to deal with all this conflict and strife    
   
But those of us already here hope for better lives as well    
We all want to see improvement, but all the lies they sell    
Are keeping half our population preaching fictitious statements      
Half facts and whole lies, we're put to sleep by lullabies    
   
Counting scapegoats like sheep    
Until we end up asleep    
Voting against our best interests    
Dote apathy as our mistress    
Now we've all become indifferent    
To mass hypnosis I bear witness      
   
That's why those still aware must go out and protest    
I refuse to believe that our cause is hopeless    
This path that we're on is nothing less than grotesque    
Let's stop these disproportionate minority arrests