65. Say Their Names - A song for Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and many more slain

Yo I’m tired, I’m tired, but also inspired Time to vote folks out get these DAs fired Grandmas stand in front of cops defendin’ they kids Grandpops now the man of the house if they ain’t dead And I ain’t watching more videos of me getting killed Cause I see myself in every video that’s real And if I don’t see me I see my whole family My best friends, my students, my community If you don’t see yourself where’s your humanity? What you gonna do to stop this insanity? If you won’t stand up for you will you stand for we? Show that black lives matter, fight for unity? But I’m a let you know we ain’t waitin’ for you We gonna fight until “all lives matter” too Before the next one is murdered, we gon’ see this through And make change with the girls and the boys in blue Let me also point this out ’fore I continue to rock The McMichaels, Zimmerman and Roof ain’t cops So when they murder us in church or on the block They represent white supremacy and that whole flock And along with these cops they represent a system Designed to take a black man and convict and kill him Aligned to take a black woman and make her a victim Then put ’em both on trial to dehumanize them Then put ’em on TV to verbally brutalize them Then never share stories of these cops and brethren Then they let these killers prep the same story And rarely ever charge ’em with a felony The justice system doin’ what it was built to do Protect the cops at all costs no matter what they do But real change is gonna come it’s long overdue Cause we had something that we never had before…YOU! Jamar Clark, Breonna Taylor, Ousmane Zongo Cameron Hall, Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo Tamir Rice, Sean Bell, Jemel Roberson Eleanor Bumpers, Walter Scott, Fred Hampton Harith Augustus, EJ Bradford, Trayvon Martin Lajuana Philips, Antwon Rose, RaShaun Washington Daniel Simmons, Robert White, Tony Green Clementa Pinckney, Philando, Botham Jean Sandra Bland, Stephon Clark, Alberta Spruill, Nathaniel McCoy, Ronnell, Travares McGill, Suzie Jackson, Yvette Smith, Anthony Hill John Crawford, Danroy Henry, Emmett Till Yusef Hawkins, Michael Brown, George Floyd Jerame Reid, Kayla Baker, Rekia Boyd Juan Jones, Miriam Carey, Jordan Edwards Atatania, Ahmaud Arbery, Medgar Evers Acevedo, Danny Thomas, Linwood Lambert Marcus David-Peters, DeAntae, Michael Stewart Malisa Williams, Claudia Gonzalez, Tim Russell, Prince Jones, Anthony Baez Jordan Baker, Henry Glover, Tony Robinson James Brisette, Shem, Tanesha Anderson Shermichael Ezeff, Freddie Gray, Ronald Madison Oscar Grant, Ayana Jones, Dondi Johnson Raheim Brown, Victor Steen, Cedric Chatman Timothy Thomas, Aaron Campbell, Tarika Wilson Ajibade, David Raya, Steven Washington Nehemiah, Orlando, Patrick Dorisman Ramarley Graham, Terence Crutcher, Daniel Simmons Manuel Diaz, Alesia, Tamon Robinson And to all the Chris Coopers and the coulda-beens Could be you or me tomorrow, we must never give in! STAY CONNECTED: Instagram | http://www.instagram.com/omekongo Twitter | http://www.twitter.com/omekongo Facebook | http://www.facebook.com/omekongo Website | http://www.omekongo.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices