If in 1921 Greenwood was a ‘hood,<\/p>\n
They’d dismiss what happened as gentrification;<\/p>\n
“Black Wall Street,” a phenomenal feat,<\/p>\n
So historians erased it.<\/p>\n
How the burning aimed to depopulate it,<\/p>\n
A thriving Black community, although segregated.<\/p>\n
White mobs massacred hundreds, burned structures<\/p>\n
Stole land;<\/p>\n
National Guard herded survivors into detention camps<\/p>\n
Like marching bands.<\/p>\n
It was a Nazi campaign before the Nazis grew strong,<\/p>\n
That we still experience today;<\/p>\n
From Harlem to New Orleans,<\/p>\n
Remember Hurricane Katrina and what followed,<\/p>\n
We still being herded away.<\/p>\n
It happened first in the South, U.S. betrayal of Reconstruction<\/p>\n
White terror forced millions to flee;<\/p>\n
Now it’s happening in every ‘hood, community deconstruction<\/p>\n
From sea to shining sea.<\/p>\n
It’s a Black Holocaust the depopulation;<\/p>\n
And expropriation of the New Afrikan Nation.<\/p>\n
But we missing the obvious,<\/p>\n
They feeding us guns, drugs and lust;<\/p>\n
Buying us off cheap, to displace us.<\/p>\n
With banks instead of blitzkriegs and mobs of racists;<\/p>\n
It’s still ethnic cleansing,<\/p>\n
Devised to replace us.<\/p>\n
With white ventures, white hangouts,<\/p>\n
White condos, white homes;<\/p>\n
Disposing of us in prisons, 1.5 million fertile Black men missing,<\/p>\n
That’s how many potential babies gone?<\/p>\n
A 2-to-1 ratio of women to men, preventing reproduction,<\/p>\n
Literal genocide;<\/p>\n
Read the convention, did I mention,<\/p>\n
Today the euphemism is “gentrified?”<\/p>\n
The term brings no alarm,<\/p>\n
It’s portrayed as fine;<\/p>\n
Although it’s no different than 1948,<\/p>\n
The depopulation and occupation of Palestine.<\/p>\n
How many parallels need be drawn, before we see we’re pawns<\/p>\n
Being played in a deadly endgame?<\/p>\n
Aimed at Black, Brown, and Red people,<\/p>\n
U.S. imperialism and white supremacy are to blame.<\/p>\n
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