In America,
white people are like Germans
in the thirties, we
act like good citizens and
pay our taxes when we’re told
even when when we know
too many of our neighbors will
will never grow old
because the government kills
some of them all the time and
its done on our dime
and we always bite our tongues
we refuse speak
of evil we hear and see
and we tell ourselves we’re free
while our neighbors lungs
are robbed of air, we don’t care
because if we did
we’d demand justice when the
next black person is murdered
we’re kidding ourselves
if we say it isn’t true,
if we pretend that
we’d do as Jesus would do.
We do as the Germans did.
