2022-2023

The New Klan

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Can’t take another“Lemme amplify your voice”When I done been screamingmy whole Lived Black life

These fools are masters toolsDigging away at masters gravesAnd don’t even own itAnother chance to dance in skinWithout respecting thosewho actually live in them

We reject these storylinesAnd we gonna keep our Tory LanezAnd Breezy doing his best work tooSang it real: Nick Cannon can pop off 20 kidsAnd you can cease an entire opinionAnd don’t even start with meAbout Uncle TomsYou can’t be real Black and proudHanging with white mobs!Yo, you the New Klan and you ride again!

Saying over and over“I speak for you my friend”Nah listen here white people:If you speak for Black peopleYou stealing our voiceKeeping us silent by choice

I’ll fight back and remind youI’m more than hot sauce or gritsJuneteenth ice cream and Black prideWhen my folks done helped invent a bitof nearly Everything

Using tools we have in commonThe beat and the drum we're the oneswho have Kept it coming

SoSadWhenOnlyWhitePeopleSpeakForBlackFriendsDoesn’tItSoundBad?

in comparison sometimes to the lyricismOf folks with different bloodBut they insist white people are heard firstWhich must be why we are all thrivingOut here not at all dying

Maybe it all endsWith Black people evolved without voiceIn future generations will weShow up in-personto flex over a dubOf someone doing a Black voiceBut you know “like funnier” than us?

Will we be Black in politicsWith only the lightest of skinAnd whitest of dear friends?Never again visiting the realNeighborhoods like King did?

Where’s it gonna end with thisHandover and passingLike ‘em taking every pose from prisonWhen they ain’t never ever beenNot ‘em trying to lay down a hairWhen their hair only lays down to begin with?

What we gonna do with these white peopleWho wanna be Native so they fictionalizeWhole grandmas they ain’t never hadWhy oh why do they hatebeing white people so bad?

They had some good stuff!Had some decent times!They wore buckles on their hatsAnd silver on their armsMade civilizations, roads, barnsA lot more than this fableof White supremacyAs if the whole ofevery empire andEvery pyramidWas only centered on one thing?Whiteness? Puh-LeezeWhy don’t these peopleknow their own history?

Got turned around inA zeal for change and hopeGot a little familiar too fastWent a little brokeHad too many failuresfrom this woke crowdIncluding the show WokeCause yeah that’s cancelled too

People aren’t buying itAnd neither have ICouldn’t seeing how Verydifferent people can beSome good some badsome complete in their indifferencePower to assign statusbased on lightness aloneIs quite the claim all in itself

Disproving quite neatlyThis inequity and intolerance,This injustice and exclusion,Is really about increasing opportunityFor more people to sit in white roomsGetting paid to be real mean to you

As if I needed them to do that for me!As if I needed anything but that…But that’s how it is whenThe New Klan rides every nightAnd every tweeted dawn

Attacking new or oldDoing it round and round(Yawn)How entirely boring(And exceedingly cringe, huh)

But so it goes whenMaster tools dig same holesOver and overMeaningless in all realityWhen names are like winds of sandand the real Nothingness is time

Perhaps indeed the last 50 yearsand the next Will be summed up Simplyas the word: meme

For it implies a whole worldthat knows not itselfBut only the image it has seenOnly faulty and cracked in viewMight well describe a societyThat rises nowhere and oftenFor those who have voice to scream