{"id":3440,"date":"2023-10-08T14:11:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T14:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2023-10-20T17:05:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T17:05:34","slug":"amerika-the-lie-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3440","title":{"rendered":"AMERIKA THE LIE (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Imperialism\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Everything in Amerika is inverted
\nEvery ideal it professes perverted
\nTake for example the name department of defense
\nWhich makes absolutely no sense
\nIts only role invasions
\nand infiltrations of weaker nations
\nAnd the department of justice
\nTargets just us
\nThe poor, powerless and people of color
\nBut protects those wealthy others
\nWho commit the real crimes
\nAnd undermine
\nWorld peace and stability
\nBecause they have the ability
\nAnd exercise it
\nKilling and robbing multitudes but few realize it
\nBecause the system shields
\nThe power they wield
\nThrough corporate monopolies
\nBut call it a free market society
\nPromoting deporting huge portions
\nOf marginalized groups while opposing abortions
\nAnd birth control
\nAssuming the role
\nOf policing women’s bodies
\nWhile claiming it’s a free society
\nAnd the lie of an economy that trickles down
\nBut grinds the poor and workers into the ground
\nWhile the rich few are exempt from taxation
\nAnd drive up the cost of living with inflation
\nWith cops who swear to serve and protect us
\nBut only kill maim and disrespect us
\nEverything about Amerika is inverted
\nEvery value it claims to uphold perverted
\nWith euphemisms its rulers disguise
\nA society sustained by lies
\nLike the claimed land of the free and home of the brave
\nBut steeped in racism and built by slaves<\/p>\n

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Poem and art by Kevin ”Rashid” Johnson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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