Why?

Why?

Jadakiss said why?

Like, why haven’t they come up with a cure for AIDS

Well I know why

You see there are parades for our demise

No longer disguised like when Tamir Rice dies, no! Murdered!

And nobody gives a grieving Black mother valid answers to why

And why aren’t these murderers indicted or crucified

Like a Black man accused with no got damn reason why

I know I’m singing a familiar song

We as Black folks been singing for oh so long

Weariness so strong and for some hope has moved on

Why?

Because they fear us and fear diminishes the ear that hears us

Why did they kill all of our leaders and leave us with no one to teach us

Breeding hate and ignorance in the young and now look at what they have become

Why do they want us like this, they don’t want us to do the right thing

They don’t want you to rise up, they just want to keep these lies up

Why else would they destroy the Black Panthers?

Because they were Black & strong, refused to accept these wrongs

Because they stood up, men, women & children with their right black fists up

Them bigots took one look and knew they were not about to get us

Soldiers with the hammer ready to demand justice from anyone who deemed us anything less than human

J. Edgar Hoover was not having it, teamed up with the FBI and decided that he was through with it

In 69, pledged against the allegiance of Black Panthers, declared it done as if they were a cancer

Came up with COINTELPRO, a counterintelligence program

Now tell me why would you counter intelligence, it’s very relevant, the words they use when they claim to improve the condition

Why? 

Why when the black man enters your immediate space, you cling onto your purse so tight as if he has given you a reason to fright

Like as soon as you leave this elevator you are dashing to your destination but you have nowhere to be, now that’s White flight to me

Like somehow he is the incinerator that will evaporate all your joy, hopes, and dreams in 60 seconds

Why?

Why are there no Assata Shakur’s, Angela Davis’s, Mary Bethune’s or Josephine Baker’s for our young Queens

Or Marcus Garvey’s, Fred Hampton’s, Bobby Seale’s or Huey Newton’s for our Kings

The only access we have is to lean, weed, molly and Hennessy

Why they want us drugged up, dumbed down, locked up and in the ground

Why did they shoot Fred in the head, in his bed, 4:45 in the morning?

Because who’s ready to attack or fight back at the crack of dawn and

21 years old and gone, carried out by laughing killers, they were glad to get us

Why don’t they want to see us, breathe us, or hear us but claim that which is of our history

It’s a mystery to me, when and how did this hate come about and breed

I mean, is a White not a Black that is simply deficient of our copious amounts of melanin

Because we definitely maintain all these shades of color, a people most certainly like no other

So we had to precede the others and I wonder how the logic got tangled in with nonsense

Why have they made our history a mystery, destroying ancient memories

Stealing the artifacts of our buried legacy, they don’t want me to remember me

At least not from my royal lineage, they enjoy when I think of the chains of ignorance

Exploiting my history, twisting up the facts so that I forget me

They want our kids to have no recollection of greatness and if they had it their way

By 2020, they would erase us, do us like the Natives, claim our existence was a myth with no evidence to support the opposite

And why?

Because it’s just the fear and ignorance of man’s kind, hue less men are unkind