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Burn and Bury: Let it Go

We are in very Troubled Times
This story started many Scores Ago
By the Founding Fathers
Many of whom may have known
Of the Toxic Contradictions
That would poison the future of this great land
From a Failed Reconstruction
A Compromised Civil Rights Movement
And a Thwarted Black Power Movement
To silenced Affirmation Action
And the countless Lynchings
Occurrences of Police Brutality
And instances of injustices in between
We see the Consistent Resistance
To social respect and Justice
We are in Haunted times
Where Race and Blackness
Are debated and presented like Magic
Tricking our Best Minds

Burn and Bury
Let it go Let it go
Burn and Bury
The Pain and The Woe

Burn and Bury
Let it go Let it go
Burn and Bury
The Stars and Bars- No Mo

We are in War Times
Where Racial Deflection
And White Supremacy
And Privilege are on one side
And Black Poverty
And Mass Incarceration
And Double Consciousness
And on the other.
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Welcome to The American Civil War II