Raise The Roof Meshell Ndegéocello

White supremacy must be in the water
Ingested by police/the prosecutor
And the politicians
Who remain silent while a steady staccato of Black bodies
Fall like leaves/in Ferguson/in Cleveland
It is autumn in America
And the world has lost its fucking mind
White cops caught killing on camera
Forcing us to relive the constant killing of our kin
-a new story cracks our consciousness/every day
Every day we watch/those viral videos
Becoming more and more numb/more struck dumb
By the sheer gall of thеse cops steady snuffing out
Black lives in thеir made-in-America home movies
Every day I have to drown my fears
For my child/born Black and girl in a country
In which her safety does not matter
To anyone with any power
I try not to think about
-the catcalls in her future
-the crass comments Black boys make
About Black girl bodies-but this poem is not about that
This poem is about the blatant racism
Embedded in the national justice system
It's about Grand Juries
That consistently refuse to indict murderers
Captured on video/it's about the consensus of white opinions
That overwhelm the evidence
Available to anyone with a fucking cellular phone
I am consuming these murders/on repeat