If the only people voting were white men
The most racist politicians would always get in
So they make laws and use deceptions to that end
Designed to suppress the vote of everyone else
With a government created by them of them for them
This is white male minority rule and always has been
In this country where all dollars are created equal
And corporations have full legal rights as people
The advances won in the struggle too soon subverted
Like the racist stars and bars flag taken down quickly replaced
With that sinister blue stripe flag supporting police brutality
Defending criminal cops and systemic racism
I see them parading in their oversize pickup trucks
Pushing up close behind to intimidate other cars
Weaving around in traffic spewing diesel fumes
Reveling in their white male antisocial privilege
As a white man myself the cops rarely bother me
Though anyone could be charged with some infraction
I don't fit the profile of who gets harassed and hassled
Which no one should if we abolish the police
In these times of mass incarceration of people of color
Under a constitution that allows slavery in prisons
With police functioning as modern day slave catchers
To supply the labor to the prison industrial complex
Getting rid of them and the courts and laws and judges
Means replacing all of it with a true justice system
That gives everyone the opportunity to live a good life
Though it will be awhile before all people come around
