Uncle Sam can trace his roots
directly to the founding slave owners
and Indian killers
so, when he shoots an unarmed black person
don’t act surprised
he has long killed unarmed black people
and when he abuses a refugee
who is fleeing one of the many countries
that we helped destroy
don’t act surprised
he has long abused refugees of his own making
and when he separates children from their parents
don’t act surprised
remember the boarding schools?
remember, ‘kill the Indian, save the man‘?
do you really think
Uncle Sam’s hatred started
with the Muslim ban?
and when he locks people in cages
don’t act surprised
he has long locked human beings in cages
but those pages were left out of your text book,
the truth is there if you look real hard
see, there were little American flags
on the arms of the guards
at the ‘internment camps’
during the second world war
and if you can look past the lies
you’ll keep finding more
and more
but don’t let your newly-found rage die
the moment a person who looks and acts
far more humane than this current guy
puts on Caesar’s clothes…
because the kids won’t care
who is wearing the crown
since as long as the grass shall grow
Uncle Sam will have it out
for black and brown
from bombs over Baghdad
and Kabul
to bullets on the boulevard
and metal detectors in schools
it’s a never ending war
that YOU are paying for,
this never ending hell
where private prison cells
are more important than education and healthcare…
things didn’t just recently start to be unfair
it’s been like this from the beginning
it’s in our DNA
it’s as American as apple pie
