Month: October 2020

October 16, 2020October 16, 2020 ddangler

Broken Ladder

Justice & Equity, Other Authors

Hunting us down like animals it’s gotten insane
You call us animals but who’s really untamed
Seems to me like you’re the one fanning the flames
You can only put so much water in a cup
But when the cup overflows things will erupt…
You say I’m violent but I refuse to be silent
You may have just awoken the sleeping giant

Zimmerman walks not held accountable
The odds of that happening were insurmountable
How in the hell was he not held accountable

African Methodist Episcopal Church
9 killed in cold blood
Oh’ let’s not forget the Katrina flood

Michael Brown was shot to death
Left on the ground uncovered during his last breath

Dontre Hamilton shot 14 times doesn’t seem logical to a normal mind

Eric Garner illegal choke hold we all knew how that would unfold (Not guilty)

John Crawford -Toy BB Gun it really hurts how that story was spun (Not guilty)

Ezell Ford – Mentally ill took shots to the back are you for real (Not guilty)

Akai Gurley -Killed in the staircase do you still want me to believe it’s not about race

Tamir Rice – Killed for a Toy – Am I supposed to walk around full of joy?

Jerame Reid – Passenger in a car don’t you think this has gone a little too far?

Eric Harris – 70 yr. old officer “mistook” his own gun for a Taser
Just when you think it couldn’t get any crazier

I could go on and list more names but sometimes I feel like it’s just too insane
So the next time you say a Black life doesn’t matter
I guess it doesn’t too you because you’ve never had to climb a broken ladder.

In memory of Ahumaud Arbery

© by Eric Little