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Red, white, and blue stripes don’t symbolize America,
Patriotism defined as selling your soul to corporations,
Minorities join the military not to defend the land,
But to receive what white skinned jarheads,
Have been receiving since the Revolutionary War,
Black folks weren’t released from slavery,
Instead sold to another Master,
Transferred between chains,
From the White Man to Uncle Sam,
While white soldiers returned from World War I, II, Vietnam, and Desert Storm,
College credits paid,
Awarded a couple of acres stolen from Indigenous,
Visits to the VA…
African Americans died in chains fighting on behalf of Northern Slave Traders,
Killing Former Slave Owners,
Japanese Americans held in Concentration Camps,
Minorities returned from Vietnam after commanded to shoot ‘dirty Vietcong,
Face to face with Jim Crow Segregation and American genocide,
White conservative fanatics scream patriotism,
Present national anthem proclaims killing of slaves,
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution,
No refuge could save the hireling and slave,
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave,
Northern Liars and Southern Murderers,
Mothers you witness pole dancing nightly,
Working morning shift at the diner,
In order to feed 3 children,
Her man sits behind bars,
She is the face of patriotism,
Red, white, and blue stars whipped into her ancestor’s back,
Refusing to give up his name,
Kunta Kinte,
Young black male arrested,
Due to the three strike law faces prison time,
Later found to be innocent,
Charged with raping a lying white woman,
He is the face of patriotism,
To criticize minorities for kneeling during a national anthem,
Failure to understand Americka declares no refuge for slaves,
Nooses, pigs, and bullets have continually been commanded to execute and perform public executions…
Published by Khalid Zilberg
7 years ago 
