COVID • Cops’ Oblivious Violence Ignites Debacle
COVID • Cops’ Oblivious Violence Ignites Debacle
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By Cole Edwards '20
By Cole Edwards '20
Cole Edwards is a 17 year old Howard University bound student that intends to study business. He always had a love for writing in which he used to express his feelings about the current atrocities occurring in America right now. In the midst of a global pandemic, America is fighting a greater virus: racism. Edwards’ COVID: Cops’ Oblivious Violence Ignites Debacle is a poem, dedicated to his future kid, describing what it was like living in 2020, a year for the history books.
Lyrics below. Click the link to see Cole perform the poem: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CAvt9nKn7gh/?igshid=17z68bo0wguq7
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I can’t wait to tell my kids abt this yearWhen they complaining cuz they can’t go out and play w friendsImma remind themAbout that time when I was forced to stay inside couldn’t go nowhereLived through a global pandemic ButWe been living through a national pandemic for years nowSick and tired Of seein another brother submissive to badgesAnother father stripped from his familyAnother son lost his footing on his way homeCuz pigs wanna shower in the mudWe can’t step outside the virus gon kill usWe can’t go for a jog there’s a cinderblock interlocked w our feetWe can’t breathe please I can’t breathe please They foot On our neck I thought we was social distancing butThe rules different when they see melaninMask up so it looks like u a criminalDon’t forget ya gloves anything u touch could be infectedMatter fact stay home the virus is airborneNo, the virus is hereditaryAnd I wont stay homeI can’t stay homeMy name is George Floyd I lost my job by staying home I gotta put clothes on the back of my six year old daughter If u insist we stay home, I insist u quarantine police brutality And if notWhen the revolution comesThe revolution WILL be televisedU shot ya target we burned our Target Put it all on the cameras 2020 this a fuckin movieAin’t no horror film this a documentary For all our fallen soldiers: Rest In PowerWe recording it so our kids could watch it without being the actorThat’s y I don’t want u going outside sonThere’s a virusA deadly virus Called COVID I hope there’s no need for that convo thoI hope I could send my son to go play outside w friendsAll I could do is hopeWe locked down all I could do is hopeBehind a screen yet I still hopeCuz when we hope as a whole we got power to end COVID
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