Lets Get Deep (Poem)
Posted on
Nov 07, 2011 at 01:06 AM
We are not even 1 out of 99
SSI, Section8 every month we stand in line
Department Of Justice
Don’t care about us
Follow m...
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We are not even 1 out of 99
SSI, Section8 every month we stand in line
Department Of Justice
Don’t care about us
Follow me lets get deep
D.O.J. hand in hand with PDs
Investigating themselves like masturbation
The outcome is the same, a big sticky mess
Black robes, Black & Blue but no Black justice
Police brutality against people with disabilities
Don’t make headlines
YouTube videos clear cut case
Should be the ace
It is just more mace in the victim’s face
Can you get deep?
Blood money from cities
Lawyers drooling at $$ signs after federal charges are dropped
Make us silent looking for millions
While corrupt police continue to walk the streets pop pop pop
Tipping over wheelchairs
Snatching off colostomy bags
Pulling aside three wheel trikes
Telling us we are drunk as we walk
Whose job is it to implement laws?
Same people that continue to give a free ride to cops
D.O.J. do your job or is it time for another budget cut
Slash all the fat, men in Black suites in legislature halls
Dwight, slammed down on the sidewalk
Sandy, pushed to the sidewalk
Sterner, dumped to the ground
Shequita, knocked to the sidewalk
Black & Blue causing blood floods on city sidewalks
Before you vote can I have a minute to get deep
Police take orders from higher ups
Mayors, Governors & Legislators
Campaign donations led to police departments
Democrats, Republicans, Green Party & Independents
Us verse them, point our own finger at ourselves asking
Where are people with disabilities & our organizations
During & after cases of police brutality
Neli Latson sitting in prison
While Autism Speaks hold useless charities
Thousands for occupied
Thousands abused behind bars
Thousands raped in-group homes
Thousands kicked out of shelters
Millions worldwide getting sick and tired
More than training
More than reform
More than charities
More than politician promises
This poem is over your head I took you deep?
By Leroy Moore Jr.
11/6/11 [less]
Broken Bodies: PBP Police Brutality Profiling Mixtape new release date.
Posted on
Nov 06, 2011 at 12:24 AM
Krip-Hop Nation/5th Battalion PRESS RELEASE
11/5/11
Krip-Hop Nation in coalition with Poor Magazine & Urban Roots Oakla...
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Krip-Hop Nation/5th Battalion PRESS RELEASE
11/5/11
Krip-Hop Nation in coalition with Poor Magazine & Urban Roots Oakland & Idrisss Stanelley Foundation Presents Broken Bodies: PBP, Police Brutality Profiling CD Presentation/Performances
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
San Francisco, CA – November 5th 2011
Police brutality is nothing new however cases involving people with disabilities has increase in the last ten years or so. From people with mental health disabilities to the new focus on people with autism, people with disabilities have more contacts with police however many cases involved brutality that ends with more injuries and death.
The Bay area has activists who have been on the front line of this issue from Mesha Monge-Irizarry, mother of Idriss Stanelley, who was a Black young man with a mental health disability and was shot by SFPD, Poor Magazine who mixed cultural activism with their media street activism in many cases of police brutality and gave media coverage to campaigns for justice for their family and Mary Kate Connor, Caduceus Psychiatric Services who have spoke about her clients contact with police and is one of the only safe place for people with mental health disabilities, Malaika H Kambon who is a photographer, video maker and has a disability. Malaika uses his artistic lens to capture police brutality on video and many more.
Krip-Hop Nation, Hip-Hop and other musicians with disabilities, with 5th Battalion of LA and led by DJ Quad who is Hip-Hop artist with a disability and founder of 5th Battalion along with Emmitt Thrower of NY, who is a retied NYPD officer turned media, film maker and artist\poet/playwright with a disability have all come together to put out a mixtape Hip-Hop CD and film documentary on the issue of police brutality profiling against people with disabilities.
This event will consist of performances from some artists who contribute to the mixtape, a panel discussion with local advocates on this issue, a sneak preview of the upcoming documentary, Where is Hope, by Emmitt Thrower (Wabi Sabi Productions Inc) and a Skype update on the Neli Latson’s (who is a Black young man with autism who was profiled, abused by police in Stanford, Virginia and now is serving time.) by his mother, Lisa Guthrie Alexander.
When: Feb 19th Sunday
Time: TBA
Where: San Francisco Main Library Room (? TBA)
Free
Contact info: Leroy Moore (510) 649-8438 OR KRIPHOPPROJECT@YAHOO.COM
Leroy F. Moore Jr
Founder of Krip-Hop Nation [less]