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A *free* t-shirt I got a few years back, from another poet *immediately* after I finished reading at an open mic.
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It's getting raggedy now...soooo why not "digitalize" it?
Forgive, Don't Forget
After the events of Sept. 11,
the day after bin Laden put America in a trick bag,
Brothers and sisters got the nerve to be waving an American flag.
That's cool yo.
But can we really forget images like the one on this shirt?
We give into trends and disregard the pain, the loss and the hurt.
Now we're walking around like racism is forbidden.
I say that it's just better hidden.
Because we're still victim to Republicans, racist cops, and courts.
Cats is still copping to a lesser charge, hoping for shorts.
Foreigners are still in our neighborhoods seeling 40 ounces and quarts.
Any baby we don't want or can't afford, we still abort.
How soon we forget in the midst of this patriotic program,
before 9/11 it was us they hated, not the Taliban.
Black America let's heal ourselves, but don't do it too fast.
Because if we forget how things used to be,
we're doomed in the future to relive our past.
written by just blak for elemental tees
front
back
It's getting raggedy now...soooo why not "digitalize" it?
Forgive, Don't Forget
After the events of Sept. 11,
the day after bin Laden put America in a trick bag,
Brothers and sisters got the nerve to be waving an American flag.
That's cool yo.
But can we really forget images like the one on this shirt?
We give into trends and disregard the pain, the loss and the hurt.
Now we're walking around like racism is forbidden.
I say that it's just better hidden.
Because we're still victim to Republicans, racist cops, and courts.
Cats is still copping to a lesser charge, hoping for shorts.
Foreigners are still in our neighborhoods seeling 40 ounces and quarts.
Any baby we don't want or can't afford, we still abort.
How soon we forget in the midst of this patriotic program,
before 9/11 it was us they hated, not the Taliban.
Black America let's heal ourselves, but don't do it too fast.
Because if we forget how things used to be,
we're doomed in the future to relive our past.
written by just blak for elemental tees