This IS America

White people screaming “this is our home, we have a right to protest!”

Except you stole this land

and only like the speech that suits your supremacy

You can’t love America and hate Democracy

Try to stage a coup and topple its foundations

Fueled by hate and lies and Bud Heavy

Breaking windows and hoisting flags and spitting virus

won’t save your man or any soul you have left

Police give them the white glove treatment

Try to “de-escalate” and “talk”instead of their usual approach of

Shoot first, ask questions later

Because they only do that when your skin has more melanin

On the day a Black woman who once picked cotton in a past not so long ago

celebrates her son’s election to the Senate

Using a system designed to keep him out

Two worlds clashing

Their dissonance amplified for the world to hear

It sounds like we were the savages all along