They didn’t tell us
Didn’t want us to know
that we were free
we already knew
had been creating liberation for ourselves
for a while

What does it mean for a system
to change branding but never the product
my ancestors free from slavery the way it was
but we aren’t free from the prison systems
from a little Black child being murdered by the very same slave patrol today.

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