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[Culture] [Rhymes/Poetry] [ULK Issue 81]
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Poem: The Government is a Rapist

THE BREAKER OF SPIRITS, THE BOOGIE MAN CREEPS,
TIP THROUGH THE NIGHT WHILE EVERYONE SLEEPS.
TAKE THIS ABUSE, SHUT UP AND SIT,
GIVE US A LOLLIPOP AND HOPE WE FORGET.

CAPTURE THE SPIRITS, MESS WITH THE MINDS,
GO OUT IN PUBLIC LIKE EVERYTHING’S FINE.
A HOT BLOODED THIRST FOR THE SOULS TO EXPLORE,
ACTING LIKE THEY’RE THE GOOD NEIGHBORS NEXT DOOR.

JUVENILE JUSTICE, GET TOUGH ON CRIME,
KILL THE BLACK YOUTH WHILE THEY’RE STILL IN THEIR PRIME.
LIFE FROM THE FLESH, WATCH THE SOUL PASS,
VAMPIRES DON’T SUCK BLOOD FROM A GLASS.

THE CONCEPTION OF EQUALITY, FLEES AND ABORTS,
JUDICIAL GENOCIDE LIES INSIDE THE COURTS.
THEY MAKE LEGAL, THAT WHICH WAS A SIN,
THE LOLLIPOP KIDS GET FAKED OUT AGAIN!

RAVISH OUR COMMUNITIES, LIKE GARBAGE IN THE BIN,
NOTHING RISING UP BUT THE DUST IN THE WIND.
CROOKED COPS SEPARATE THE BLOOD FROM THE KIN,
CORRUPTION IS A CANCER THAT HAS GROWN FROM WITHIN.

WE ALL FACE EXTINCTION, READ BETWEEN THE FACTS,
STAND YOUR GROUND LAWS ARE AIMED AT THE BLACKS.
THE DANCE OF INJUSTICE, PREYS ON OUR NIGHTS,
DO THE STANKY LEG AS THEY SPIT ON OUR RIGHTS.

KIDNAPPED AND SHACKLED, JUSTICE DENIED,
MILK CARTONS DON’T EVEN KNOW WE’RE ALIVE.
SLAVERY IS BACK! BLACK LIVES ARE SOLD,
ALL THE INNER CITIES ARE MANAGER CONTROLLED.

THE VIPER OF INJUSTICE, SULFUR TO THE SPARK.
TRAP LITTLE BABIES AS IT HIDES IN THE DARK.
JIM TO THE CROW, OPPRESSED ARE THE YOUNG,
BITTER TO THE TASTE IS HIS NAME TO THE TONGUE. (TONGUE)

THE GOD OF THE HEAVENS, DOESN’T KNOW THEM,
THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION DOESN’T SHOW THEM.
THE GOVERNMENT IS A RAPIST, A CRIMINAL AT LARGE,
A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE THAT HASN’T BEEN CHARGED.
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[Rhymes/Poetry] [ULK Issue 72]
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Unite or Die

This is a galvanizing poetic call 2 action,
The Soledad Comrade, George Jackson,
Once declared: “capitalism is the enemy,”
Meaning: you and me,
The common man and woman of poverty,
Are more family than enemy,
Because we are poor,
Fighting a common enemy of imperial elite capitalism,
Not 2 allude 2 the day 2 day,
Systemic Amerikkkan racism,
There’s truly no time,
For us 2 be killing and fighting each other,
When in arms together,
We are sista and brotha,
Therefore we must come together,
In a clenched fist alliance,
A peaceful defiant display,
Of unity and excellence,
Unite or die,
Is a true rallying cry,
Wherefore, we must join forces,
And overthrow the corrupt, racist, imperialist,
Capitalist Amerikkkan government,
Ergo, the clenched fist alliance,
A resolute display of resistance,
And defiance,
There’s no time 2 pray,
March and cry,
It’s either unite or die,
Truly, unity is the most dominant,
In the face of all inequality,
We are living in a truly,
Provocative span of time,
So what is it going 2 be,
Unite or die,
And commit 2 memory: “Capitalism is the enemy.”
We must unite or die.
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[Rhymes/Poetry] [Police Brutality] [ULK Issue 71]
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Can We Breathe?

george floyd qualified immunity

(Remember George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and OTHERS)

I done seen too many mothers cry, brothers die,
while the children left to wonder “Why?”
I’m on the side of the righteous in the time of crisis,
Is the prize really worth it? I tell em that its PRICELESS.
I don’t have hope, kuz hope is for the children,
and those UNABLE to take part in what we’re building.
But we’re ALL gonna benefit when we defeat the nemesis.
A new beginning for humynity, modern day Genesis.
It’s THEM that want war kuz we’re bangin on the door,
They’d rather see us breathless and layin on the floor.
But I woke up this morning to a BEAUTIFUL site.
Black, Brown, and white, its TIME TO UNITE!!!
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[Rhymes/Poetry] [ULK Issue 74]
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AMERIKKKA The Real TERRORISTS!

   We hear, each and every day,
that weapons of mass destruction are on the way!

But, what we don’t hear is who is behind-the scenes,
   the ones that are holding the reins!

For control of everybody and everything,
   they pretend to be for peace, but
truly wanting to rule as World King!

 They have went to every nation, told lies, stole, raped, and said this was for freedom,
 the truth is, the pressures were applied to defeat them!

How do you help other Countries fix their lifestyle,
when over here, you cannot ensure the safety of a child?

You say one thing, but you have done another,
in reality, you have shown no love for your brother!

Like Cain, you have destroyed many, many with your deception,
still killing your brother Abel in this session!

FBI, CIA, and all of America’s comrades have hurt more people than anybody on earth
crying that democracy is what it’s worth!

How can destroying other people and their property be liberation?
I, myself, see only damnation!

We, Afrikan descent suffered the trauma of chattel slavery,
some of our precious Ancestors showed a lot of bravery!

Today, the Black Panther Party is still under attack,
lies have been told to disrupt and misdirect,
with every attempt to discredit our respect!

We have and will continue to survive,
   no matter what it’ll take,
by all means, even if it’s so powerful,
   that it makes earth shake!

Afrikan Descendants, it’s time to do our thing,
by truly freeing ourselves and letting our liberation ring!

It’s on us, to take back all that our ancestors lost,
with all our powers, no matter what ever the cost,
never let these people be called your “BOSS”!
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[Rhymes/Poetry] [Police Brutality] [Racism] [ULK Issue 80]
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What is Justice?

What is Justice?

This is the question of our time.
It’s the struggle that people go through when they’ve been wrongfully convicted of crimes.

It’s the outrage over Black men dying and our race being marginalized by this capitalist society.
We’re targeted by fascist forces of white faces in high places who push the agenda of these racist polices.

Which perpetuates poverty and inflicts us with pain;
we’re steady searching for the sunshine but all we seem to find is the thunder and rain.

In order for there to be justice, first there needs to be a change.
To abolish the system that views a Black man as a cold-hearted killer or a member of an organized gang.

It’s a damn shame how they view our people as animals who needs to be tamed.
When they can’t even seem to control these fascist forces of pigs who really needs to be trained.

Honestly, they really need to be slain for trapping our black bodies in chains,
and for killing our brothers in the streets every day like it’s all apart of the game.

Justice is insane!
It’s a process full of heartache and pain.
It’s like the government is the Devil and we just caught in the flames.

Yankee politics are to blame for causing another Brother to be slain.
“I can’t breath! Officer please” was his claim.
So to overthrow the capitalist reign, we ain’t gone let that Brother die in vain.

What’s his name?   What’s his name?
  George Floyd!     George Floyd!

And to all the other Brothers and Sisters that we lost to this racist system.
The People have become conscious;
the revolution hasn’t quelled!

-Forty

#AllPowerToThePeople!

#LongLiveTheGuerrilla!

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[Rhymes/Poetry] [ULK Issue 71]
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Knowledge Supercedes Any Title

When you enter a new mental, you tap into true potential

Unsatisfied with the gat you become attached to the pencil

You can’t brag on your little strap when they enemy’s blastin missiles

Do the math on that real fast, now you get the picture

You wanted to get cash real fast now you in the system

Then you want that wealth that’ll last once you get the wisdom

It’s not about “DEVELOPING PLANS” it’s staying with ’em

Knowledge supersedes any title, so it’s vital!

It’s not about what you read, it’s the substance of your recital

First you try it, then apply it to your life and just let it guide you

It’s more than quoting the Qur’an, Hindu Scriptures, and Holy Bible

It’s Essentializing Beneficial Knowledge without College

Using LOGIC and not VIOLENCE when it’s time to solve your problems

It’s more than filling up your pockets and seeing your whole profit

The real challenge is to BALANCE getting dollars with killing DRAMA.

K.S.A.T.

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[Rhymes/Poetry] [Florida] [ULK Issue 72]
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Community

They say, we are burning down our own community,
they must be looking at the wrong TV,
According to Webster, a community is:
1) A body of people living in the same place
under the same laws.
2) society at large
3) joint ownership
4) The people with common interest
living in a particular area.
Based on this definition, we have no community.
We own no major corporations, no assets, no property.
We get no equal service and protection of law
in any of these territories,
like the Palestinians being occupied by the I$raelis.
All we are experiencing here is amerikkklan apartheid,
Portrayed as aliens, second-class citizens, animals on channel live.
This would not be happening in our community.
Our schools and education, would not be getting determined
by capitalist imperialist white supremacist owners of our ancestry,
In our community, the police would be police,
not PIGs (Pro Imperialist Goons) who hate us with dignity,
lynching us like dogs in the streets, with guaranteed impunity,
no accountability,
In our community, 94% of our annual spending
would be on own products and services.
Rent and interest rates would not be discriminatory.
We would be land lords, we would have our own banks,
investing our savings in our own community interest,
with appreciation and thanks.
We would own our own means of production.
Selling our labor to each other,
and receiving fair wages, top dollars,
the only community we’ve ever had,
was burned to the ground in 1921.
Tulsa Oklahoma, Black Wallstreet.
Where the owners of corporations and property
looked like us, thought like us, acted like us
everything there was for us, by us.
The court rooms in our community would be egalitarian and just.
We wouldn’t be getting lynched in the streets,
or being incarcerated, rail-roaded for profit.
This is not our community,
Burn it down… Burn it down…
To the ground,
This is not our community.
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[Rhymes/Poetry] [Black Lives Matter]
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Black Crow

Hook:
I don’t want to feel this way no more
I don’t like this pain inside of me
I want to fly free, like the Black Crow
Let me fly free, like the crow.
Verse I:
I got an ill feeling, is this the end of the road for me
So much darkness, constantly shackled never free
I just received a message, one of my nephew’s gone
I’m getting frustrated; did I do something wrong
I been trying to change my ways, to love my brothers
Brother, we keep killing each other, hurting our mothers
What’s the solution; what we gone do with this voodoo
You killing me, I’m killing you, brothers back on the news
Racist faces say that’s all we do, blame them for our fuc ups
But fuc that, because I know they are a part of the set up
Jim Krow, still trying to keep us uneducated
Hate it when we successful, furious when we make it
My Lil DeDe gone, got me real faded; will I make it
Is it another life, that gone be taken
I been talking to myself a lot, thinking it Satan
Don’t nobody really understand me, only when I talk to Satan
Only when I talk to Satan, only when I talk to Satan

Off the album “Another Storm”
By Sinden the Poet feat: Keda Heata
Askari African Lulu Empire Production
Askari Revenge Records

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[Culture] [Rhymes/Poetry]
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Sittin' in This Cave

Sittin’ in this cave
Where these people are tryin’ to make it my grave
But thank A.L.L.A.H. that HE gave lessons so myself, I could save
That’s that 19th degree
My culture is freed
My teacher is the one who did it for the seeds
But tell me who 96?
Who stayed on the lessons like a dope fiend stays lookin’ for a fix?
I’m Maoist like Huey and Seale
New generation Panther, I got my letters, I’m sealed
I’m livin’ righteous for real
Free Larry Hoover before them 2-7’s have yall lookin’ like banana peels
Hot peppers gettin’ chilled
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