Thursday, September 22, 2011

RIP Troy Davis

My heart is so heavy for Troy Davis' family. The Supreme Court could have stayed his execution. They should have. Instead they basically lynched him. Why? Because he's like any other black man in America out on the streets at night when they should know better, right? Reminds me of a Citizen Cope song that I think says it better than I can:

Contact
You're walking down the street
You've got this white Chevy Lumina undercover
Checking you to see
They're checking your I.D.
'Cause it's a fine time
Say just to run a name
'Cause you look the same
As the dude with the rebel in his veins
But while you're checking me
You've got them crooked politicians
Eating up the treasury
And taking our cash
To spend on the prisons
While the youth they fast
Now I'm waiting on the day
When we can all bring
Like Martin Luther King
This is why I sing
I want some contact 

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