Karega Bailey - No Indictment lyrics

[Verse 1: Keon Williams] Our father, trying to pray for peace but everyday it's getting harder Can't even scroll my phone without somebody getting slaughtered And even with our cameras up, no charges getting brought up They body slam my daughters and they execute our fathers Make us pray for peace because of what the pastor taught us Never trusting police because of what the past has taught us They lawless and they heartless, they evil and they godless This is holy war regardless and it's evident I'm militant That don't mean I'm violent, contrary to your rights It ain't right to remain silent, not when all our kids are dying Somebody gotta fight to protect what's right, so when faced with violence Violence is what you do to protect your life and I can't keep quiet We can't keep on marching at rallies or have another riot Trying to boycott, but motherf**ers are still buying And bullets are still flying, and n***as are still dying And people are still crying [Verse 2: Karega Bailey] Military mind state, organize the village Respect, protect our women, form a circle 'round our childrens Elders at the center, we rely upon they wisdoms Guidance and they council, show minors why they livin' Brother can't do much from in the grave or in the prison A n***a think he free and really slave to them systems Victim or a villain, I refuse to play the victim See my sister ain't no b**h, my brothers ain't no n***a First we edify the language, then unify the gangs Set aside our differences, we banging for the same things It's ghetto scriptures encoded it in slang Then I put it in the music, so I put it on your brain Yeah, I teach them how to use it, yeah, I show them where to end Yeah, I pull them to the side, yeah, I put them up on gang We give 'em food for thought and let it stimulate the brain We can build a nation up and tear devil out the frame, bang [Verse 3: Keon Williams] Can't you see that we under attack? They shooting us in our backs No knife at a gunfight, yeah, San Fransisco just taught us that We can't run forever cause Walter Scott had just taught us that Hands up, I can't breathe, look how they choked that man A black life is worth more than a hashtag And more than a picket sign, we living in wicked time We can't call the cops on the cops when the cops committing crimes No indictment for they k**ers, tell 'em, knock one down [Verse 4: Karega Bailey] Riots and rallies ain't sh** The iceberg is always bigger than the tip, trip Found guilty by a jury of six, b**hes A dead man take the stand as his own witness This is the America I live in The criminals roam free and the victims go to prison But we was born in prison, been living in poor conditions So d**h is the sentence, and your skin is your conviction I realize since the trial, we ain't winnin' I realize we alive, we ain't livin' We spent a lifetime tryna fix a broken system On our knees pleadin', beggin', prayin', hopin' and wishin' Please, I ain't signing no petitions I take a new position, tryna break a broken system Until it's broke and won't work for nobody If it don't work for everybody, can't work for anybody So say the Panther Party Fred Hampton, Dr. King, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey And yours truly, screaming "fifty slugs for Moody" People love is our duty, we got to have unity Fortify our families and build stronger communities Educate our children, afford them with opportunity Show them how to love black before they reach puberty Cause knowledge itself gives them immunities [Outro: Kat Brooks of the Oakland Anti-Police Terror Project] My name is Kat Brooks. I'm the co-founder of the Anti-Police Terror Project and a member of the Black Power Network and I'm actually based in Oakland, but here supporting San Francisco. After Mario was murdered, murdered, executed in broad daylight in your city, I asked myself "How long?" How long is it going to take for the Chief to come out and tell the community that we didn't see what we thought we saw on that video? How long was it gonna take for the police to come out and tell us that we didn't "understand the circumstances" surrounding that murder? Because that's the tape. That's what happens every time. We see what happens and then you [?] yourself out and tell us that we are not intelligent enough to understand that we saw a black man gunned down, execution style, in broad daylight in the streets of San Francisco. And somehow you think that talking to us like we are children who have not been examining, watching, studying you and your system for hundreds of years as we figure out how to tear it down, push back, and eventually win—as you continue to talk to us like children, what you are doing is inciting the rage of the people. And I want to be clear with you all that a new day has come: to San Francisco, to Oakland, to Baltimore, to Ferguson, to Atlanta; there is a movement sweeping this country and we are not gonna stop until you stop k**ing us. Until you stop k**ing us, we will continue to shut it down, interrupt your business as usual, we're gonna take to the streets, we're gonna interrupt your election cycles and I have news for you, Chief, sir: we are going to shut it down until you resign or until all of you get the courage to fire him. And Oakland will be here every time. We're bringing the heat