Beaten by Those Who Protect
Through the Fear of a Colored Man
The question is do we want to be free or safe?
Being truly free I can kill whoever I want
When and where
For anything petty
Freedom is Freedom
Both good and bad
For better or worse
The marriage of this concept
We only view the good
Like heroin
Before it kills you
As a society we chose safety
We chose to have people uphold it
Given the necessary tools
Trained to know when and where
But yet I am scared
Still I remember the electric bolt from a weapon of safety
Loss of control of my body
A chemical burning on my face and throat
As they try to calm the situation
Fear is the ultimate weapon
Until a revolt happens
Then peace is the only way
But after all history repeats itself
I was only fifteen
Kings would often execute those that opposed them
A way in which to uphold the sanctity of society
Safety
The law of any land
Freedom has to be limited
That is why we have laws
To protect from one another
But what about those in which are supposed to serve and protect
They have freedom to hurt us in our “safe” society
Scars are everlastings
Rodney King will know this
To fear safety is not safe
It’s in our nature to socialize
Laws are slightly bent to the breaking point
But in mutual agreement for nobody is perfect
But a tool used to stop the most primitive of us
Against those that embrace the choice of safety
Fear invoked
Anger sprayed into the lungs and faces of many
This is not safety
But hidden slavery
Not like pre-civil war
But scars run deep
From the pictures
And cultural anthropology
We want an apology
Our oppressors can’t apologize
If they don’t see what they did wrong
Don’t get mad at those who uphold our safety however
For they are taking up the daunting task
To evolve first
It’s a learning process
We were meant to embrace freedom
But instead we're trying to evolve
To embrace safety
Errors have to be made
But now it’s time to learn
My fellow friends had to experience the pain I went through
I thought I wouldn’t have to relive that
Luckily I wasn’t there
Knowing more have to fear the concept of safety
Makes us want to truly embrace freedom
But I know what that tastes like
For those that are supposed to serve and protect
Are trained in the primitive ways
Of freedom
About the Creator
James Fuentes
Young individual who studies anthropology at SUNY Brockport with a voice that hopes to change the world through the two oldest aspect of civilization in which be communication and emotion.
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