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Stand, Brethren
Would you ask the Jewish community to humbly stand?
For an anthem whose origins relished in deaths of their man
Would you demand that they capitulate then berate nonconformers?
If a stanza about the Holocaust was lost, would that be the answer?
An erasure of a few words don't deserve to be praised
But when it comes to the chattel slave, no one is phased
That's depraved and has raised these questions
Oh say can you see the hypocrisy in the equations
Is there a subtraction of empathy for he that looks like me?
Making it hard for you to see the err in ways of Francis Scott Key
"Days of slavery are over so just get over it", many say
Expecting me to pridefully sing about my ancestors' dismay
Would you convey the same to families who grieve 9/11?
Isn't that catastrophic event ancient history, brethren?
Don't step in the excrement that you're shoveling my way
I'm poetically conveying why I don't feel the same about "Independence" Day
The veil of yesterday has been tossed away and burned
Now mine eyes realize that there's much to be learned
As the world turns, I discern what's behind the disguise
Trying to unlearn the turns and routes of assimilated lies
Don't see it the same as I? Cool, do you
I was once blinded to these views too
Now the pixels in triumph doth wave
O'er the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave
For an anthem whose origins relished in deaths of their man
Would you demand that they capitulate then berate nonconformers?
If a stanza about the Holocaust was lost, would that be the answer?
An erasure of a few words don't deserve to be praised
But when it comes to the chattel slave, no one is phased
That's depraved and has raised these questions
Oh say can you see the hypocrisy in the equations
Is there a subtraction of empathy for he that looks like me?
Making it hard for you to see the err in ways of Francis Scott Key
"Days of slavery are over so just get over it", many say
Expecting me to pridefully sing about my ancestors' dismay
Would you convey the same to families who grieve 9/11?
Isn't that catastrophic event ancient history, brethren?
Don't step in the excrement that you're shoveling my way
I'm poetically conveying why I don't feel the same about "Independence" Day
The veil of yesterday has been tossed away and burned
Now mine eyes realize that there's much to be learned
As the world turns, I discern what's behind the disguise
Trying to unlearn the turns and routes of assimilated lies
Don't see it the same as I? Cool, do you
I was once blinded to these views too
Now the pixels in triumph doth wave
O'er the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave
Published 28th May 2021
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30th May 2021 9:28am
Tons of truth in this one, We're the only ones asked to move on beyond a tragic history. Di we say history? This seem to be still the case every time there is an unarmed man lying in the streets dead. Tight work on a bold piece
30th May 2021 1:26pm
I always say that much of which that seems to have changed has just evolved and obtained a different name.
11th Jul 2021 7:27pm
It’s incredible the things that weren’t included in history class or books when I was in school, then as we get older we find out more and more because they tried to bury it.
You shine a light on this subject with excellent rhyme and flow sir
You shine a light on this subject with excellent rhyme and flow sir
