LET'S MAKE THESE NI**AS VIOLENT!

I do not hold my tongue when I write like this. If it offends you I ask that you read the message before you judge!

 

 

Let's make these ni**as violent!   Let's kill their inner dreams!
Let's murder all their hopes! Let's bring them to their knees!
If we can make them violent, people will only hear their victim's screams
Then no one will think about their sorrows; no one will give a damn about their dreams!

 

We will kill their inquisitive nature; teach them to only bounce a ball or rap
Give them parcels of empty nothing by putting blood money in their sacks
Let's make sure they don't own anything, gloss up "crap" to look real good
That "bling" will make them forget that they are still living in the hood

 

Discourage them from going to college; let them think education isn't free
Let's tell them that slinging dope is the only way to earn money for their family
Teach them that their women are wanton w****s with no self pride
They can beat and abuse her; then leave their b*****d baby growing inside

 

If we can remove all humanity from the soul of a simple black man
We can take away his faith so he never has  hope to stand
It takes just a little effort, a simple push to stir him to a fit
We strategically make him feel slighted and watch things in his life go to Sh--!

 

Yeah let's make these ni**as angry!
Let's get them to go on a violent spree!
Let's make them feel ignorant!
Let's remind them that they are not free!
Then when they turn to violence, let’s glorify it in the media with their Black victims screams
Then we can kill them as a people and destroy all their inner hopes and dreams!

 

© 2013 Eddie K. Phillips

Author's Note

I grew up in the ghetto in Chicago. I see so many young children being turned violent and people ignoring their plight. Thousands of children have died in those streets. It is heartbreaking. People get mad about the word Nigga but they blast it in songs on the radio everyday. The flippantly use it for the wrong reason. To compound that racist still use it. It is a slight and a moniker for blacks. I chose to use it for the character of this poem. I could have toned down the poem but I decided that if I did that I would be slighting the message of the poem. The racists that laugh at our children being slaughtered in Chicago, Detroit, California, Florida, etc.. would make these statements. A racist wouldn't say African American or black man. The title is not for shock value. it just fits the poems message. I would also caveat that these racist are both black and white. It takes both to do what is being done.

Reviews

[icelandicblue]

It needs to be said. It needs to be heard. The media is biased, covering murders of white people and barely reporting on people of color. Any child who is a victim of violence is the worst kind of tragedy but equal weight is not given solely based on color. Education and job options are the answer but our nation continues to turn a deaf ear; it's so much easier to blame than to change. It is poverty and hopelessness at the root of it all. It's an excellent poem and our nation needs to acknowledge that we need to care about all our children and citizens equally.

[Eddie Phillips]

I grow tired of the children dying in the streets. I grow tired of people ignoring the plight of those in pain. At some time we have to look up and see that the poor and impoverished are dying. It was looked at as a black problem but in truth it is a system problem and we are all affected by it. Thank you for reading this poem. It comes at you hard but it has a purpose. -Eddie

[Baby Ricochet]

Eddie this is flat out brilliant. Without a doubt the best piece I've ever read by you. If you want to see where America has failed miserably just drive through the hood. There's no doubt a huge socioeconomic divide runs through this culture that's clearly racially biased. The so called war on drugs is racially biased as well. It's also an epic failure. So long as we keep handing this country over to the rich (one percent of the US population controls over 90% of America's wealth) the hood will get bigger and the suburbs will get smaller as we careen towards a 21st century feudal state where gas is 10 bucks a gallon and unless daddy is rolling in gold you can forget about higher education, or much of anything else. Thanks for posting this my friend. Now I'm all fired up, but that doesn't take much

[Rita L. Sev]

Wow. Such a powerful; piece, and so full of truth, Eddie. We have created a culture of hate, where everything, even life, is disposable. But I live in hope, with each new class of students...

[Corset]

I'm so glad you added that last line to your comments because I was going to say that here if you hadn't. Racism is not inherent, it is taught by the parent not the child. My foster parents are terrible bigots, I love them to death of course but...they taught that and fortunately I have always been one to think for myself, it's a sad state of affairs all around, the ones who teach it and the ones who accept it as if it is something that has been "done" to them. The only thing to me that has "color" are souls, souls come in colors and the higher we vibrate love the lighter and brighter the color, I think we might both be red, lol, according to our avatars :) I look & love forward to a world where this kind of post wont feel necessary to be written. :)

[Tate Morgan]

Sad i spent 8 yrs in Chicago and had 8 black men that worked for me.,Their lives were nightmares on steroids. One boy 17 was shot for his sneakers. Another beaten for bringing home books to study for school.The projects were a sea of broken glass. The neighborhood was a sea of metal bars and the streets were awash with despair sad so sad. But i think it is the culture that causes this. As many from other countries come here and don't speak English .However in a few generations mange to climb up the ladders of life..

[Eddie Phillips]

Tate it is the culture and the fact that people just ignore the tragedy of these young people. When I wrote this poem I wrote it from a racist frame of mind. However it is not just from a "white" racist frame of mind. Sadly there are "blacks" that feel the same way. The picture I chose for the poem is from a racist commercial created by a guy named "Tyler the Creator” In the commercial he depicted the angry black guy stereotype. Sadly we live in a society where the pain of the impoverished is just ignored. Few people actually care that someone has been hurt or died from these ignorant action. They just turn the TV off and carry on with their lives until tragedy visits their doors. It’s a sad truth. Thanks for the powerful review.

[Tate Morgan]

Well I saw first hand the inhumanity of the streets

[Eddie Phillips]

It is because you have a good heart that you understood the inhumanity. I wish more had the same heart.

[Amanda]

This really pulled a lot of emotion out of me; I think you were right not to tone it down, way to speak for not only yourself and your background, but for your generation.

[Eddie Phillips]

I try to be honest with my writing at all times. I also try not to be overly offensive. If I am offensive it is with a purpose. There was purpose behind the vernacular of the poem. I thank you for reading it and getting the message. It is a little hardcore but it has a point.

[Frieda P]

I saw the title and was wondering...only a African American/black man could get away with this my friend. Yes, it's stirring and unsettling, tough growing up on the streets of Chicago, racism still lives unfortunately, and our young are the ones that pay the price. Stellar read!

[Eddie Phillips]

It is a hard subject. I wrote this poem about a week ago and wrestled with toning it down. I finally decided that it was the message that was important. Thank you for reading and understanding the point of the poem. I would agree only an African American male could
write this type of poem. Therein lies the responsibility placed on us to educate and show the
ignorance that is out there on all sides. Thanks again for reading!

[Frieda P]

I think if you would have toned it down any, it would have lost its impact, my pleasure Eddie!