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State of the Hood
from WARTIME FALL 2020
Black People have a 500-year entanglement with the most oppressive regime this world has known.
Black Men remain Public Enemy, Top Ten Most Wanted, the Most Invisible Visible motherfucker in the Room. Meanwhile, Black Women are still the most disrespected person in this entire society.
The current state of the Black union in the United States is one that’s still stuck on the basic need for safety and freedom.
These humane requirements are consistently ignored, as the police continue to kill niggas. Black families are suffering from every known angle, as their children are homeschooled by Zoom instructors. The technology gap we’ve long preached about has now reached its boiling point. Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook can’t save us but we’re still lost at sea on Instagram.
Black families are holding this country together as they label us “essential workers,” the new aged slaves of Amerikkkan society.
Slavery and prison are the same things, confinement and forced labor are capitalism’s main means of control for our growing Black population.
BLACK MEN BUILD 2020
The war cries of White Supremacists are ringing from Portland to Kenosha.
Black Lives Matter now but Black Power is restricted or even forbidden from being mentioned.
Our so-called Black Liberators Party with the purveyors of their own demise. We are trapped inside a hyperbolic chamber of undefined Blackness. There is no political line, celebrity niggas are still kneeling and praying for “change”. But that’s solely because they’re rich and wealthy, they want you to play with the change while they get to the millions. They want you to wear a mask, while they themselves appear on television without one. Nobody has the balls to call cap, because none of us really fully understand what fuck is happening. Everybody is selling half-truths and half-cocked ideas. Weak ass rappers partner with General Electric and Seagrams to release hatefilled music. In the name of self-destruction, these companies continue to use Hip Hop as a means to fuel the genocide of the Black family.
Meanwhile, African chattel slavery is reinvented every day at Wal-Mart, Target, and Kroger. The food source is controlled by the same people who make guns. Monsanto genetically modifies the fruit, the seeds, and now even the weed you’re smoking. If you are lucky enough to have a car, you’re doing deliveries or dropping MFs off. Uber and Lyft have no identity without us.
White oligarchs have robbed us of our rights to healthcare, clean water, and sound hygiene. Black coons buck dance for consideration and still get neglected by Big Daddy Trump. We need a Black Messiah but the Black movement itself is the opps.
We need a plan to rid this darkness but the goofies dominate the conversation as if our children can eat their bullshit for breakfast.
Covid-19 has given way for the birth of a much deeper automation. The control of our elastic souls is tethered to the fate of this crumbling nation. As the empire prepares itself to embrace a new King, this election cycle once again reminds us to seek the truth.
The president is a liar, he has no plan beyond the chaos.
Black babies are being born to die under his regime.
The fascist order of the United Snakes of America has poisoned us all. Family Dollar and Dollar General fleece Black families for their food stamps. Black politicians play games with people’s democracy on the daily. We want to vote, we believe in the power of choice. But many of us understand an Imperialist nation would never concede to the righteous order of a true democracy.
The State of the Black Union today says we’re enduring the wrath of the ugliest genocide planet Earth has ever known.
They want us to believe revolution is not possible.
They want us to put down our guns and become entrepreneurs. The white media shuns the Black sex workers as if this economy is kept afloat by any other group of people. The outskirts of the inner cities
are flooded with Blacks who desperately need environmental justice, as factories fill our lungs
with poison. The same white doctors who are killing our babies at birth are also responsible for letting our fathers die from cancer. Donald Trump is a white nationalist who lies about his intentions. Y’all think it’s only about the money? Well, the money was made for and designed by white devils who owned slaves. Then they spit in our faces with proclamations of putting Mama Tubman’s beautiful face on the front of their filthy twenty dollar bills. Every person who is laid off or fired from their job now has an opportunity to join the revolution. The establishment has run out of tricks, Joe Biden is their last hope. As Black Muslims are being asked to support a ticket of Zionists who will bomb and rape the men and women we pray next to at Jummah. The proverbial Lakers of the Democratic Party have returned. The self-subscribed Super Team of the Neoliberal movement. The Obamas, the Clintons, the Bushes, and now even Colin Powell, all of them in alignment behind a man who can barely read the teleprompter. An election that poses one bizarro version of Ronald Regan against another one. Equalizing our choices as “voters” no differently than playing Street Fighter II Turbo on two-player mode and selecting the same exact fighter as your opponent.
Trump, Pence, Biden, Harris, none of these niggas will do a fucking thing about our day to day
problems. But no matter what, someone has to be president. And right now as things stand, the White House appears to be occupied by Russian operatives.
And still niggas are suffering - being forced to join the military after high school in order to stay out of jail, only to come home from Iraq and get gunned
down by a racist white boy with a badge. Crackers are becoming millionaires for killing innocent people because the Alt-Right movement celebrates its kill with impunity. As Black men fall victim to homicide,
Black women are being physically abused by their own lovers.
Niggas need counseling and therapy, but your favorite trap rappers join the Black liberation and tell you generational wealth will cure oppression.
Niggas want us to think being a landlord will cure every known problem we have in our communities. The coronavirus has revealed the goofies, now it’s up to us to remove them. The Black Church must politicize itself if they hope to survive. As the leftish bourgeoisie sector of the Black Movement pushes for social relevancy and cool points from Hollywood. Real niggas are out here busting their fucking guns to feed their children. Real Black women are out here doing the same because the graveyard doesn’t know shit about gender. It doesn’t matter if you are gay, trans,
lesbian, or straight. If you Black, your ass ain’t safe in the United States.
Written by Tef Poe.
