Statistic Black Man

By EW
This is how I feel, so I put it on a piece of paper.

Just ‘cause I am black and have dreads
And have on a Helly and a ski mask on my head
Don’t mean I have a gun
Don’t mean I like to rob
Don’t mean I am selling drugs
Don’t mean I carjack
Don’t mean I am a bad person
So you don’t have to hop out the car
With your gunz drawn at me
Or press me out like I have something
Or did something
Or blame me for something I didn’t do
It’s a person that been locked up for 20 years
And he didn’t do nothing
Just cause I stay in the hood
Don’t mean I am going to clown
It don’t mean I am going to act a fool
Just because I am with my friends
Don’t mean we about to do something
And just because a paper say that I am a menace
Don’t mean I am!
Because I am not
So don’t try to take my life away
Some of us don’t know what all them years mean
And some people don’t have anything
Not just black people
Some don’t have their family to support them
And if they do, they don’t have nothing
So they go out and get money ‘cause they need to
That don’t mean that they like doing the stuff that they do
Some people been doing it for a long time
So used to it ‘cause all the jobs gone
So they can’t get one
So why you scared of me and other people like me?
People make mistakes
That’s a part of life
I am not racist, but I feel some kind of way
Because if a white man or woman do something to us
And we do something about it
Or we walking through the suburbs to go to the store
Or just seeing a family member or something
The police blitz us like we doin’ something
But we not
Is it because we black?
Yeah, but some white people is not like that
Some want to help us
Some don’t
I respect the ones who do
But I don’t judge nobody
But everybody have feelings
So don’t take our freedom
Our people have to fight and fight for it
So give chances not time
Some of us need it
But at the end of the day
God/Allah made us
So act like it!