[00:03.84]Sami Rhymes
[00:05.46]Yeah it's mad
[00:07.23]But everyday it feels like my life's on the line
[00:09.75]It's like being born black's a bloody crime
[00:16.86]There's no sugar in this cane
[00:19.62]Don't mind a bit of pain
[00:21.06]But being whipped and stripped ain't the same
[00:22.98]When you're being restrained and detained
[00:24.54]For a crime you didn't commit
[00:25.92]Matching a description that only your skin colour Seems to fit
[00:29.19]Being black's the crime for which they want to convict
[00:32.04]Innocent until proven guilty
[00:33.84]But in their eyes black is filthy
[00:35.79]And you're guilty until proven innocent
[00:38.10]Prison is imminent and once you're inside these Prison guards move militant.
[00:41.91]Multiple participants caught up in an array of incidents
[00:44.76]Reports of broken limbs and torn ligaments
[00:47.43]Beaten like an instrument
[00:48.69]Witnesses silenced
[00:49.89]No one was vigilant
[00:50.82]Malfunctioning bodycams
[00:52.38]What a coincidence
[00:53.55]Too many blacks caught up in similar predicaments
[00:56.13]All of this is equivalent
[00:57.36]To cases of false imprisonment
[00:59.16]And cases where officers have been responsible for Planting weapons and stimulants
[01:04.31]Adults taken in generally face 5-10 years of Imprisonment
[01:07.95]Some are given life;5 years is typically the minimum
[01:10.86]Sentence given to young males that are black and Innocent
[01:13.98]White offenders plead guilty to the same crimes yet Manage to get off with insufficient evidence
[01:19.05]The racial disparity in the criminal justice system is Evident
[01:22.71]Richard Phillips spent over 45 years incarcerated in The state of Michigan
[01:26.85]Wrongfully convicted of murder despite having long Proclaimed his innocence.
[01:30.81]Eventually exonerated in 2018 when the man Responsible for the crime came forward supplying New evidence
[01:36.75]Meanwhile innocent bros on death row lay on their Knees praying persecutors find new evidence
[01:56.43]They are trying to get rid of all the Black citizens
[01:59.37]From Western born to first-generation immigrants
[02:02.16]And the attempts to annihilate us are getting Ridiculous
[02:04.77]They even stop and search us to ridicule us
[02:07.08]Then arrest us for resisting them
[02:08.85]Even when it's clear that we ain't resisting them
[02:10.91]Mentally sick of them
[02:12.06]Physically can't deal with them
[02:13.53]Any form of contact literally seems to trigger Hypervigilance
[02:17.04]Mentally sore
[02:17.97]Flashbacks of things that we saw
[02:19.77]When made to feel sore
[02:21.03]Anxiety sores and the impact of the trauma is raw
[02:23.88]Can't even hug loved ones anymore
[02:26.13]Constantly at war
[02:27.15]Fighting for a free mind and a trauma-free life.
[02:29.55]There's more to being free
[02:30.75]Than walking freely outside
[02:32.52]Putting us inside has messed us up inside
[02:34.74]The direct impact of being incarcerated and Institutionalised
[02:38.58]A prisoner in this life and a prisoner in our minds
[02:41.76]Doing time for being a particular kind of kind
[02:44.46]We have our movement restricted until proven Innocent and acquitted
[02:48.36]Only to be released into the same racist society from which we were omitted
[02:52.20]It's never too long before we hear of another black Soul that's been killed or wrongfully convicted
[02:58.26]Hospitalised or readmitted
[02:59.58]Sectioned for not being with it
[03:01.53]Attempts of suicide cos the mind feels rigid
[03:04.29]Carrying involuntary memories of trauma so vivid
[03:07.35]Never feeling free
[03:08.49]Constantly having to relive it
[03:10.44]Racially profiled
[03:11.76]Until death comes, we have to live with it
[03:14.13]These white supremacists
[03:15.39]And bigots hate to admit it
[03:16.80]But being born black's
[03:18.09]The only crime that's being committed