Rest in peace

By Alvin L. A. Horn
Rest in peace to, the next lightning strike of the murder of a Black male
Rest in peace to, the next young black male, father, uncle, and grandfather, the kid next door, who is or was on his way to higher learning
Rest in peace to the next black male going under Six Feet

Rest in peace to, all the black lawyers who used to represent our hoods, and used to attempt to protect us within this tilted legal system but now you do corporate law
Hey Black lawyer yeah you...you abandoned us to make mo-money and that's all well and fine, I get it, I want to make a dollar too, but rest in peace to giving a damn at all

Rest in peace to those preachers standing in the pulpit collecting money from women who sons are now buried or soon to be shot or strangled or beat
Rest in peace to, the preachers who are not standing up in the community and all you have to say is "let's pray" and won't get out of your black SUV's and get on the corner with other black preachers like Martin did, like Malcolm did

Rest in peace to "by any means necessary"

Rest in peace to, whatever happened to the Black Panthers who used to feed us and protect us and would go get a gun permit, and go out in our communities to protect us from the thugs who look like us, and from the thugs who wear blue uniforms

Rest in peace for what used to be black leaders and black politicians whose number one priority was protecting us, now those black politicians all stand up and say they are behind Israel beating down other brown people with less then
Rest in peace to, they represent us, in rest in peaceful trains of thought
Rest in peace because for sure you haven't heard of a black politicians speaking up about all the black men being killed by thugs in uniforms who are paid with our tax dollars, yeah how do you rest in peace

Rest in peace to, those who try to deflect with black on black crime stats as being the same as trained legal thugs with badges killing us
Rest in peace; white folks kill each other too, as cops beat the hell out of their wives, yeah check that stat
Rest in peace to the next black man who has been killed by the police, and we scream bloody murder, and sue for money to buy bigger rims

Rest in peace to, I'm tired and dazed and confused, as there are those who say it not a racial thing
Rest in peace that if they knew American history, they could see the police are “hanging strange fruit”
Rest in peace, if you don't know what that means, and you don't find out before your black male becomes “strange fruit”

R.I.P as we need a rainbow of promise not broken to keep our black males alive
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A.L.A.H.
8/12/2014