Willowwood to Kay Center July 24, 2019

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Skylands July 22, 2019

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get back

Back in the day when I was protesting

They yelled at us to go back to Russia

Sometimes hurling bricks along with the brickbats

Trying to bully us off the streets.

Especially when we stood with people of color

They hated us those lower class white men

Acting out the virulent racism of white America

Dupes ruled over by upper class white men.

Now I hear a similar hostile sentiment

Spewed from the mouth of the head of state

Inciting violence against people of color

Flaunting his racism out in the open. 

Being white and comfortable I could look the other way

The way that so many around me seem to do

But I believe in a better world where black and brown lives matter

Knowing what they do to any of us they do to all of us.

I remember when I first heard an old recording

Big Bill Broonzy playing a 12 string guitar singing

"If you're white you're all right; if you're brown stick around

But if you're black get back get back get back."

Today when I see that reactionary flag

The one with blue stripes approving police conduct

The everyday profiling the brutality the oppression

I know that person supports injustice.

The day will come when the tide of change surges in

Drowning the bigots with their heads in the sand

The future belongs to all the people of the world

Marching under the rainbow flag.

Marconi Beach July 19, 2019

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