In remembrance of those
Who learned of their freedom

2 and a half years after the date

A reminder that freedom is something we must create

A reminder that slavery in any form
And anything that does not recognize our mutual value

Is a crime against our humanity

A reminder that freedom can not be issued

Nor Justly given or taken away

We stand on the precipice of a climate and culture shift
For which there is no precedent

If you stand for nothing
You will fall for anything
When Everything is at stake

Idolizing the appearance of allyship will not suffice
Polite artifice And insincere disguise will be belied

Hiding behind
Hashtags banners signs
bumperstickers will not be the true test of your hearts sincerity aligned with the plight humankind

There is more bravery in you
than you have ever known you would need
or even have the strength to muster

Listen to this voice as if it were coming from inside you

Clamoring for our rights to our own bodies
To a love our children and we ourselves so richly deserve

The freedom of mind and thought
To direct these bodies soundly
In unison is ours to unearth

For our collective well being

Conjurers of word sound power

Arrayers of light and voice

Meet me
Where music meets melody

Weaving harmony from discord

The times are calling for the iron in our blood
The unsheathing of our tongues not to draw it

The blood spilled haphazardly across this land
Is calling for our unrelenting commitment to each other

The soft and tender parts of our hearts
that hold space for us all will be our greatest strength

Now is not the time to fall asleep idly at the wheel

Too many souls have been bled dry to fuel that engine still

Stolen American dreams from unwilling immigrants

What but justice and a more just us can fill that emptiness

Who drew
Gum and resin from the pines to be made into turpentine

Who made of
Georgia wet clay from riverbanks bricks to form this great empire

These will be made whole

These will be made whole

Call upon the strength and endurance
That gives us pure sense

Eternal vigilance is called to speak to

What we have endured what we have survived

Silence will not save you

You are being called by your first name to turn the world upside down

Or on its right side

Decriminalize Blackness

Decriminalize Humanity

We will not stand for slavery by another name

overseer politics will not be tolerated
When my freedom is your freedom
When your freedom is our freedom

We are not and our children are not expendable
Nor will we fall prey to the fiendishly rational


There is no criminal race

The criminal is race

And All that delineates
Separates us
From knowing it is grace we share this space

Our freedom is no mistake

Our loyalty is to our shared humanity

This Reconstruction gon stay x2


You can't convict me of vagrancy
when I'm home anywhere I am

We are desecrating barriers to our achievement of a land
That honors all inhabitants and values that we can

We who fought for our lives
to fight and die
for this country
To come home
to fight for our lives
to die for this country

We speak life
.
Whose gon take slavery out the constitution

Whose gon take slavery out your constitution

We are planting seeds yielding harvest of our own volition

The love for us Grants us permission 3x