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The landscape is lovely, but America ain’t beautiful
Dredd Scott, Plessy, and Ferguson,
Racism makes this America the Institutional
Softer penalties for opioids than crack?
That’s America the pharmaceutical.
Raging pandemic but protests against masks?
That’s America the communicable.
Sieging the capital because Black votes COUNTED?
America the delusional.
Not terrorists because they’re white instead of Arab?
America the inexcusable.
Now watch these racists crawl right back
to America the cubicle.
And cops who were “unprepared for riots”
continue their murders of innocent Black people
America the dutiful
“We’re better than this America!”
Nah, this is America the USUAL.
Leading the world in abject hypocrisy since 1776
America the indisputable.
