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Burn and Bury: A Call for Healing And with any war
Flags are very important Signifiers
We are in very Troubled Times
That mark the Social, Cultural and Historical space
This story started many Scores Ago
While some may believe the Confederate Flag
By the Founding Fathers Is about Heritage and Not Hate
Many of whom may have known
Of the Toxic Contradictions The Reality speaks Otherwise
This flag can never represent
That would poison the future of this great land
The Rich diversity and Dynamic heritage of southern folk
From a Failed Reconstruction
Where the African American Experience has played a Central Role
A Compromised Civil Rights Movement
And a Thwarted Black Power Movement Burn and Bury
Let it go Let it go
To silenced Affirmation Action
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And the countless Lynchings
The Whites over Blacks
Occurrences of Police Brutality
And instances of injustices in between Burn and Bury
We see the Consistent Resistance Let it go Let it go
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To social respect and Justice
The Systematic Attacks
We are in Haunted times
Where Race and Blackness If We Cannot resolve the issue of the Confederate flag
Are debated and presented like Magic Something we Can See and Touch
How can we as a nation process the complex things we can Not See?
Tricking our Best Minds
As We continue to fly this flag
Is not only Passive-Aggressive and disrespectful!
Burn and Bury But it promotes Visual Terrorism
Let it go Let it go And if Black People and sympathetic others
Burn and Bury Are not in Constant Resistance
And Protest of such symbols
The Pain and The Woe
Then we Run the Risk of sending the Wrong Signal
The Confederate Flag flying
Burn and Bury The Fergusons
Let it go Let it go The Eric Gardners
And the cases like Baltimore are powerful examples
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That Show there is a consistent lack of respect for black people
The Stars and Bars- No Mo
And where there is No Respect
There is No Justice
We are in War Times And then No Peace
Where Racial Deflection
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And White Supremacy
Let it go Let it go
And Privilege are on one side
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And Black Poverty All that divide
And Mass Incarceration
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And Double Consciousness
Let it go Let it go
And on the other.
Burn and Bury
Welcome to The American Civil War II All that have died
The War that started way before General Lee was born
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