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letra de no indictment - karega bailey

[verse 1: keon williams]
our father, trying to pray for peace but everyday it’s getting harder
can’t even scroll my phone without somebody getting slaughtered
and even with our cameras up, no charges getting brought up
they body slam my daughters and they execute our fathers
make us pray for peace because of what the pastor taught us
never trusting police because of what the past has taught us
they lawless and they heartless, they evil and they godless
this is holy war regardless and it’s evident i’m militant
that don’t mean i’m violent, contrary to your rights
it ain’t right to remain silent, not when all our kids are dying
somebody gotta fight to protect what’s right, so when faced with violence
violence is what you do to protect your life and i can’t keep quiet
we can’t keep on marching at rallies or have another riot
trying to boycott, but motherf-ckers are still buying
and bullets are still flying, and n-ggas are still dying
and people are still crying

[verse 2: karega bailey]
military mind state, organize the village
respect, protect our women, form a circle ’round our childrens
elders at the center, we rely upon they wisdoms
guidance and they council, show minors why they livin’
brother can’t do much from in the grave or in the prison
a n-gga think he free and really slave to them systems
victim or a villain, i refuse to play the victim
see my sister ain’t no b-tch, my brothers ain’t no n-gga
first we edify the language, then unify the gangs
set aside our differences, we banging for the same things
it’s ghetto scriptures encoded it in slang
then i put it in the music, so i put it on your brain
yeah, i teach them how to use it, yeah, i show them where to end
yeah, i pull them to the side, yeah, i put them up on gang
we give ’em food for thought and let it stimulate the brain
we can build a nation up and tear devil out the frame, bang

[verse 3: keon williams]
can’t you see that we under attack? they shooting us in our backs
no knife at a gunfight, yeah, san fransisco just taught us that
we can’t run forever cause walter scott had just taught us that
hands up, i can’t breathe, look how they choked that man
a black life is worth more than a hashtag
and more than a picket sign, we living in wicked time
we can’t call the cops on the cops when the cops committing crimes
no indictment for they k!llers, tell ’em, knock one down

[verse 4: karega bailey]
riots and rallies ain’t sh-t
the iceberg is always bigger than the tip, trip
found guilty by a jury of six, b-tches
a dead man take the stand as his own witness
this is the america i live in
the criminals roam free and the victims go to prison
but we was born in prison, been living in poor conditions
so death is the sentence, and your skin is your conviction
i realize since the trial, we ain’t winnin’
i realize we alive, we ain’t livin’
we spent a lifetime tryna fix a broken system
on our knees pleadin’, beggin’, prayin’, hopin’ and wishin’
please, i ain’t signing no pet-tions
i take a new position, tryna break a broken system
until it’s broke and won’t work for n0body
if it don’t work for everybody, can’t work for anybody
so say the panther party
fred hampton, dr. king, malcolm x, marcus garvey
and yours truly, screaming “fifty slugs for moody”
people love is our duty, we got to have unity
fortify our families and build stronger communities
educate our children, afford them with opportunity
show them how to love black before they reach p-b-rty
cause knowledge itself gives them immunities

[outro: cat brooks of the oakland anti police-terror project]
my name is cat brooks. i’m the co-founder of the anti police-terror project and a member of the black power network and i’m actually based in oakland, but here supporting san francisco. after mario was murdered, murdered, executed in broad daylight in your city, i asked myself “how long?” how long is it going to take for the chief to come out and tell the community that we didn’t see what we thought we saw on that video? how long was it gonna take for the police to come out and tell us that we didn’t “understand the circ-mstances” surrounding that murder? because that’s the tape. that’s what happens every time. we see what happens and then you trot yourself out and tell us that we are not intelligent enough to understand that we saw a black man gunned down, execution style, in broad daylight in the streets of san francisco. and somehow you think that talking to us like we are children who have not been examining, watching, studying you and your system for hundreds of years as we figure out how to tear it down, push back, and eventually win—as you continue to talk to us like children, what you are doing is inciting the rage of the people. and i want to be clear with you all that a new day has come: to san francisco, to oakland, to baltimore, to ferguson, to atlanta; there is a movement sweeping this country and we are not gonna stop until you stop k!lling us. until you stop k!lling us, we will continue to shut it down, interrupt your business as usual, we’re gonna take to the streets, we’re gonna interrupt your election cycles and i have news for you, chief suhr: we are going to shut it down until you resign or until all of you get the courage to fire him. and oakland will be here every time. we’re bringing the east bay

- karega bailey

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