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Fight the Violence with Peace


Why should we ban violent lyrics in rap?
Songs
When they pull our race down, down, down
Erasing years of pain
Painfully, erasing the reasons for our
Struggle
Denying our rights as African
Americans, who lost their
Lives for the struggle to grant us
The freedoms we have in store today
As a country banned from social
Freedoms


Why should we ban violent lyrics in rap?
Songs
That discriminate women by using
Derogatory names...whore...bitch
Wrapped in blood of the union
Flag
Which stood for what we call?
Freedom


Why should we ban violent lyrics in rap?
Songs
When we know our mothers are the
Backbone of the black
Family
The mother who
Birthed us, put the clothes on our back
The roof over our heads, tolerated
A sound education
And lead us on our way
To defend the struggle
That can so easily be
Taken away


Why should we ban violent lyrics in rap?
Songs
While during slavery
We were
Brought from our
Mother country
Stolen from our birch to an
Unadulterated culture of being slaves
Where our mothers gave birth to us
In the cotton fields
Raised white babies as nannies
While our women today
Are being lynched, burned and
Disregarded as socially retarded
As our cast in the struggle
Blown away with violent lyrics
Used in rap
Songs today


Why can't we fight the violence we
Speak of with
Peace...


God Bless

Written by Angela Brown

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