TEN (feat. Jewchelle Brown)
Candace Nicholas-Lippman
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Hold your breath for ten minutes It's impossible to do it You would need to have The lung capacity of a fish Which unfortunately George Floyd Didn't Ten minutes The time you may spend Waiting in line For your Starbucks fix Ten minutes The time it may take you To fix your children breakfast Ten minutes The first way you spend it Checking instagram And posting A new tiktok challenge Ten minutes To check emails And make phone calls Text your boo thang Good morning With heart-eyed emojis Ten minutes To take that new quarantine selfie With the overly used caption What month are we in Ten minutes To take a walk in central park And marvel at God's creation But then To be approached By yet Another Karen Who forgot That as a child We were taught To not make up stories And lies Just because You're white Ten minutes Or less than To come to the conclusion That this Black or brown person Must be dangerous They are a certified criminal Can't you see their skin color Hold your purse tight And lock your doors They are prone To breaking and entering You see that In their hand That's not a cell phone Black and browns Can't afford one of those That is for sure a weapon Ten minutes To walk To the convenience store To satisfy your sweet tooth Oh no Blacks don't eat skittles He must be an intruder As he intrudes Upon the sidewalk With a light jog Cause you know Black people Shouldn't exercise Ten minutes It takes To plant evidence Falsify reports And bribe witnesses Imagine all the lives That've been taken Where there was no Camera recording Ten minutes And a lifetime It took For that white devil To admit That sweet baby boy Emmett Till Never did nothing Ten minutes To be pulled over For a tail light infraction Gunned down in the middle of an intersection Tazed, maced and water hosed Executed while playing Video games with nephew Followed around the store Cause whatever I'm stealing Will somehow Fit within my afro Ten minutes To cut a high schoolers dreads In the middle of a wrestling match Or expel young girls For rocking Protective styles Ten minutes To reconsider Procreating How I can bring A beautifully brown child Into a world Where the very moment They are born They've already Been issued a death warrant Ten minutes Of hashtags And headlines Black Lives Matter chants And screams Of say their names Which will soon Be washed over By the next twerk video Gone viral Ten minutes It would take For my privileged White friends Who call themselves Allies To use their Falsely believed Superiority And speak up for minorities Ten minutes To call upon my ancestors Whose blood lives within this American soil To pray to my God Whose blood saved the world Who will cry for the little boy Antoine Fisher Eric Gardner Kalief Browder I am angry like Malcom Compassionate like Martin Fired up like Nina Simone Mississippi Goddam! Ten minutes I cry out I can't breathe Mama Mama Can you hear me Officer I can't breathe Whatever you do within the next ten minutes I want you to think of George He was a father, a lover A son, a human And in just ten minutes They took his existence In ten minutes Ten
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