Our community wears a blindfold…
And is yet to find out…
That for generations…
We've been told…
What politics call…
Delicate fabrications…
And we've been sold dreams…
By the main stream…
Who calls it a subliminal message…
Impressive…
How they…sneak into our minds like that…
How they…keep us held back like that…
Im talking selling crack on the corner…
To lawyers and preachers and teachers…
Whom the government calls an example… and the dealer is only…
9 years old…
Our community wears a blindfold…
When… a local gang…
Or…
Some man with "loco" in his name…
Affiliates an adolescent by initiation…
Making them…do a 1-8-7…
To… whom the community calls snitches… whom…
Told what they saw…because that snitch had morals...
Now were talking murder…
And the killers only…
12 years old…
Our community wears a blindfold…
When…virgins are told lies…in disguise
Of… what parents call compliments to make them feel pretty…
What a pity it is when lil' KeKe gets pregnant…
Im a victim…
A mother at 15 yrs old…
Our community wears a blind fold when…
We are told that we are grown at the age of 18…
But what justice really means is…
If lil' Jimmy drops out of school…
And plays a fool to the life of crime…
He'll do time…at a state facility cause legally…
He can be trialed as an adult…
Convicted felon at 18 years old…
Sent to prison at 19 years old…
Death row at 20 years old…
This poem that im feeling…
This evening… deals with…
Believing in our damaged youth…
Lets take off these blindfolds…
And find out the truth…
Cause this is a subliminal message…
Written by Frstladylsm