Kevin Rashid Johnson

There’s nothing new
To how you play on words,
Talking heads used
To make lies heard.

Like taking law professor Derrick Bell’s
Critical Race Theory,
A term you ripped off from academia
Trying to bury…

The teaching of
True

Whenever the people try to get you off our back,

You pretend you’re the victim of an unprovoked attack.

The pig is a foul traducer

It was Huey P. Newton who introduced the

Term

So the people could learn

For everyone who’s done hard time
and is about that action,
Who’s been on the receiving end
of a cell extraction.

Five pigs in riot armor
line up behind a shield,
Once they assemble
your fate is basically sealed.

>From city to jail blocks
we live behind locks,
The world is much bigger
than this tiny cell box.

But like slaves
of old
confined within the fold,
Only allowed to know
what our enslavers have told

Each of

God is what we do
It includes me and you
The eternity of our deeds
Is determined by serving the needs
Of the planet and the people
Metaphysics doesn’t determine
What is good and evil
What does is the

Racialization is
A status,
On which
The only thing that matters

Is your hue and
Complexion,
And the dark one
Offers no protection

Against being shot by cops
Or suffering insults and offense,
And being treated as if
You

Prison lives matter
lives shattered
living the American nightmare,
We need support
against the courts
how they warehouse us here.

Razor wire plantations
their inspiration
slave pens of old,
Killing fields
riot armor and shields
if the truth be told…

Have you ever considered
you who call yourselves ”nigga”
how much you think like those who enslaved you?
You’ve become willing cattle
better yet chattel
your oppressor’s views now engraved in you…

Way back when
to break slave men

I remember vividly
the last time I cried,
I’d received an envelope
full of photos of children who’d died…

Under the occupation
of the U.S. military,
In the middle east
in their efforts to carry

Out wars in Afghanistan