Tic Toc goes the clock On the mystery of the history Of who am I And who are you And who are we Maybe to better understand me I should try and understand you So when I heard of the demise of the Indian tribes from the White perspective was that they had put too much trust in the treatise they signed Now you can better understand why Sandra Bland told that policeman I HAVE RIGHTS!!! and ended with losing her life But that has nothing to do with the perversion of the aversion towards the Chinese whereupon our first immigration law was to get rid of them all or the Japanese version who will tell you that internment is a diversion it was imprisonment You see history is His story but what about Her story now that you’ve heard some of Their story all we ask is just a simple task Can’t Black Lives Matter Too??? You see no one knows what the Poles went through in World War II where six million died half of them Jew or in 1891 the single day worst mass lynching in America took place in Louisiana against the Italians cause being a Catholic back then was like being a Muslim today or that in 1848 through 1860 in a twelve year span out here in California they lynched 163-Mexicans You see history is His story but what about Her story now that you’ve heard some of Their story all we ask is just a simple task Can’t Black Lives Matter Too??? No one knows what a Black woman goes through cause it was a Black woman who started hashtag Me Too and White privilege means many different things to many different body but to the Black family it means access to their body How many times did the slave masters rape Black women so many times I ain’t got a clue so you’re not a clown when you look around and see a lighter shade of Brown just ask the African, the Aztecan, and the Mayan how that happened These women had no choice! there was no Twitter to give them voice! Some say Thomas Jefferson was a great man but how many times did he have to rape that woman to produce six children and when we called him father he denied us and all of America told us Yousa lie! But in 1998 DNA gave us proof that for over 200-years Black folks had been telling the truth then I heard somebody scream who did not look like me HOW COULD THE PERSON WHO WROTE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE HAVE ENSLAVED HIS OWN CHILDREN! You see history is His story but what about Her story now that you’ve heard some of Their story all we ask is just a simple task Can’t Black Lives Matter Too??? I want to set the Record Straight! hashtag Black Lives Matter ain’t got nothing to do with no cops It got something to do with a civilian and his name was George Zimmerman and he shot and killed an unarmed Black teenage boy by the name of Travon Martin and there was NO JUSTICE FOR US! and just like all the other civilians before him with Dey Lynch Mobs and Dey Gang Rapes so much was going on Rosa Parks had to investigate and this was some twenty years before she refused to go to the back of the bus 80-years removed from slavery so much horrors had been thrusted upon us In 1944 in Alabama Recy Taylor was twenty-four she was walking home from church when she was abducted by six Caucasian boys She said, “Please don’t hurt me, I have to go home to my children.” Five hours later Her father found her on the side of the road beaten and raped Now I comes from a woman! We all do And when I heard this story I cried but when I heard her sister tell it I died inside Dem boys wasn’t content with just raping my sistah Dem boys played inside my sistah My sistah never had any children after that Dem boys went all up inside my sistah’s body My sistah never even gotten pregnant after that Dem boys played inside my sistah’s body! You see history is His story but what about Her story now that you’ve heard Our story We have a daunting task Such an overwhelmingly daunting task For YOU TO ASK CAN’T BLACK LIVES MATTER TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Copyright 2018 Donald “C-Note” Hooker Listen to the audio version on Soundcloud ▶ Can't Black Lives Matter Too??? | DAREALPRISONART https://soundcloud.com/darealprisonart/cant-black-lives-matter-too

Today we are sisters Tomorrow we won’t unless for reparations together we fight I am Pro Choice I am Pro Life just because she’s in prison She still has rights About Paintoem Painting by: C-Note Poem by: C-Note

Rapunzel could let down her hair because someone cared Letting down my hair I wouldn’t dare So all I do is stare at the bliss of all things I miss Mother Nature’s wonders Cause Father Time wants his due and the world ain’t got a clue Here I stare alone in my room cell block Twenty-two About the Paintoem Poem by: C-Note Painting by: C-Note Want more Paintoems? Follow link: https://mprisondpoetz.wordpress.com/more-paintoems/