RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: AMERICAN HISTORY
Crack in East LA
Remember back in the nineties
When the CIA delivered crack cocaine
To the gangs in East LA
Transforming the crips and the bloods
Into well-armed citizens militias
The CIA used the money to finance
The Contras of Nicaragua
A force against democracy
The CIA doesn’t push drugs anymore
But the gangs don’t need drug money
To buy weapons of mass destruction
It’s easy to buy guns
Any kind of guns
From sawed-off shots to M-16s
If you’ve got the money
They’ve got the guns
The forces of law’n’order don’t need
To start wars in the hood
To kill off the poor people
The people of color
The people who don’t vote
The people who don’t matter
Give ‘em the guns and they’ll
Do it themselves
Shoot ‘em up bang bang
Another black or brown dead
Why not give ‘m an education
Instead?
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