State Of The Union

Hmm...

In a country where sterotypes run rampant, and out of date styles are being revamped and, where people kill each other over a color, and where crack will make a sister murder her brother...I sit @ 3:52am...thinking like always, how many times will we point the finger, while deep inside of us the same actions linger, you all jump to attention when someone black experiences racism or dies, but otherwise you'll never see that fire in your eyes. Everyone is afraid of what others may think, while our children are on the streets leaking, like a broken sink. No matter how many times our elders tell us, we'll look at them like that's back in your day there ain't shit you can tell us. They say they remember when ladies were classy, now all dudes want is a girl who sucks dick and wants it nasty. They say ladies carry yourselves with dignity, so why a lot of teens saying, "put it into me." Sad that our country that was built on blood, tries to say that for all of it's inhabitants it has love. I shrug, and now it's 3:58, why am I doing this thinking and it's so late. On the eve of a new year, Times Square will be filled, not thinking on those same streets people were killed. Nah, it's all about living for the now, get drunk, get high, "you know how you got here?" "Don't ask me how.." A world full of bitches, and I don't mean women, I mean dudes that stay strapped cuz they softer than little children. These are the male role models that we have, couldn't last 2 seconds with Felix Trinidad. I'm sick of my young black peers obsessed with money, shoes, fame, and all that really means nothing. Everytime I turn around there is a song about cars, pussy, cash and how these rappers buy out the bars. George Bush...not enough words for that cat, nothing but a disgrace, and that's a fact. It's funny how the majority of the blacks complain, but you didn't go to vote cuz you would have had to stand in the rain. Ironic, that I'm pointing the finger, cuz to be truthful I ain't vote either. So many people rallying around this black incumbent, but it's only cuz of his skin that you love it. It's funny how many consider us a joke, and everytime we fulfill their view, it's some more fun they poke. New Orleans still hasn't been resolved, it's okay Reggie Bush is there so rejoice ya'll. Well I can see through the smokescreen, maybe the NFL manipulated the "state" of the teams. I guess nobody peeped it, funny cuz it was in front of you every weekend. People dying in Columbus at an all-time rate, record is in the hundreds, and from breaking it I think we less than 8. Murder, death, aids, poverty, all the while we still are made a mockery. In 2006 going on 7 racism is going strong it still hasn't lessened. I don't care if you disagree, this is me, but tell me, WHY DID THE TERMINATOR DECIDE TO SKI???? Much bigger problems in Cali than slopes, like the killing of a man who reformed you know? We got a rancher for a Prez, and Cali has a snowboarder, meanwhile we treat Mexicans like a plague and don't let them cross the border. What happened to give me your tired, your poor, you know what's on the statue of liberty? I guess with so many years since it was built, liberty has run out of energy. It's sad what happens to my black people, constantly looked down upon, laughed at behind closed doors, and our own men treat our women like whores. Maybe one day things will change, no time soon, but I'll do my best to beat that. It's time for a change, Martin was about it, X was about it, but now everybody talks about it, we got a long climb and it feels like we at the base of the mountain...

- JioVanni