Bein Black

Akron police are searching for a killer today. Police said overnight someone shot two men inside a Car on Bell Street. 28-year-old Reggie Woodall died from multiple Gunshot wounds. Akron officers say they found dozens Of shell casings about a half mile away on Douglas Street. Akron police think the scenes are Connected. Woodall was a friend of NBA star LeBron James. James tweeted about his death. Check out my melody, gunshots from the police. They been killing niggas on my block since '63. My OG bought a.50 piece, always telling ghost Stories. Saying you remind me of me, got so Much hope for me. Still I give him a 40 for 15 and some game. You think that I'm corny 'cause I gave the Old head some cane? He the one that put me in it with The strap and the pack. Instead of I catch him slipping, serve him like The rest of these junkie bastards. That hereafter shit, his dark laughter, Sad day. When the student outshines the master is Always. Hell-volution, black revolution beret. Trench and 12-gauge shooting. They done killed Malcolm and Martin Luther. Hard to march without boots. Kunta Kinte or Tobe, nigga, this ain't bout boots. Bills are stacked to the ceiling high, the cupboards Down to a can of soup. Where's my superhero in a suit? Where's the prophet from both books? What's the truth? Does my savior's hair resemble Thick wood? Or is it silky smooth? Don't know, but I'm hustling by the store. Got dope and a gun, it's not for show. I just can't take it no more. My people under attack. Endangered species, product of the pack. And I'm the spitting image of Sach. Identical features plus my hunger match. Got the same problems as my dad. Damn, it's hard being black. He can always raise an argument about law and Order because he never talks about justice. But black people fall for that same argument and They go around talking about lawbreakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those Laws. Those laws that keep them up keep us Down. You got to begin to understand that. For 400 years, he taught you white nationalism and You lapped it up. You taught it to your Children. You had your children thinking that Everything black was bad. Black cows don't give good milk. Black hens don't lay eggs. Black for funerals, white for weddings. That's white nationalism. Santa Claus. A white honky who slides down a black chimney And comes out white. We can't equate progress with concessions. We can no longer make that mistake. You see, when they gave us that nigga astronaut, You said we were making progress, but I told You they were going to lose him in space. He didn't get that far. You put Adam Clayton Powell in office and you Couldn't keep him. What you think they're going to Do with Thurgood Marshall when they get tired of Him? They gave you Walter Washington of Washington, D. C. and you said we were making progress. That's not progress. See, it's no in-between. You're either free or you're a slave. There's no such thing as second-class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little Bit pregnant.