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Patriotism
An emotional attachment to a nation an individual recognizes as their homeland
Can you be an american without being patriotic?
Can you be patriotic without being an american?
What is an american?
Can I be an American without worshipping at the altar of White superiority? Am I patriotic if I don’t accept my place in White history?
Can I love this land without loving White ways?
Patriotism
Thinly veiled racism You want my buy-in But you keep lyin’
(Instr Oh say can you see)
I pledge allegiance to the flag Of the United States of America And to the Republic
For which it stands
One nation
Under G-d
Indivisible
With Liberty and justice
For White people
(Instr We shall overcome)
I’m not sure that’s patriotic
(Instr Land where my father’s die land of the pilgrim’s pride)
(Instr Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring)
And cuz I won’t drop my brain off You say I’m not loyal enough
To your system of my oppression
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Slavery is alive and well
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What? I don’t sound patriotic to you
I Don’t come around to it the same way you do Cuz I didn’t get here the same way you did
I can love this land and still call you racist
I can like being here and still not want to be with you I’m not going anywhere
If you don’t like it
Go back to where your immigrant ancestors came from
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Different perspectives Opposing positions Your freedom is a given Mine is being fought for
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Congress shall make no law respecting the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
What happens when grievances are not redressed How long are we supposed to wait
Do we just protest without the expectation of change Freedom
Your right, my privilege
Bestowed on me by you
Freedom is yours to lose mishandle and dole out As it pleases you
And you are stingy
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
That was written for white people
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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Freedom and justice for white skin
But I still fight next to you
And put up with stuff you would never put up with My patriotism and loyalty are mistaken for weakness But I love my country
And it’s mine as much as yours
Trump card
Now we know how you really feel about my feminine brown existence Not you obvious ones
We always knew you existed
I mean the ones
who don’t say a word
When the obvious ones form the lynch party
The ones who don’t start the lynching
But stand silently by while it happens
Justifying with your false narrative
Benefitting from white supremacy
You call patriotism
Make america great again
What? Do you mean like before the imperialists came
Before the savages arrived and wiped out most of the Natives I don’t want things to return to normal
Normal means black males are assassinated
black women violated
Black children expect to be incarcerated
and not one patriotic person says a word
Oh say can you see
As long as Patriotism demands my degradation I won’t stand for it
No refuge can save
The hireling and slave
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I am free
Not because you say
All men are created equal
But because your creator says I am free
We are not afraid, we are not afraid We are not afraid today
Oh deep in my heart
I do believe
That we shall overcome someday