mass incarceration
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I read a book that said,
There is one kind of prison where you are inside,
and the things you want are outside,
There is another kind of prison where you are outside,
and the things you want are inside.
Black Birds
Black birds, black birds
fly in the sky.
Oh black birds, black birds
why aren’t your words being heard.
A system plagued with innate discrimination,
is justified by the masses of the nation.
Mass incarceration of minorities,
shows genocide is above priorities.
And then what is it that we see?
