MINNEAPOLIS WEEK

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Most Black men

In the U.S.A. have

An oppressor's leather boot

Applied to their necks.

George Floyd

Died untimely

With the knee of

Police repression on his.

George Floyd

Complained of

The knee's pressure restricting his oxygen.

He couldn't breathe--we couldn't breathe.

Derek Chauvin

Never respected the li...

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A small ripple in the ocean of change,

From the tears that flooded the planet with our pain. 

As the world stood in unity for months to protest,

We anxiously waited today for the guilty verdict to mark progress. 

Though white supremacy still continues to plague us with sorrows, 

So we must fight on and seek justice for tomorrow.

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Kneel

I saw a young man kneel today

He hung his head as if to pray

But he would take a life away

To honour and protect they say

Another black man has to die

Before the country questions why

They let enforcers kill and lie

and let another mother cry

Fear and hate mix with malice

A city faces the abyss

A cocktail of vinegar and piss

On the streets o...

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