{"id":1836,"date":"2020-06-16T19:39:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T23:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2020-06-16T19:39:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T23:39:44","slug":"no-more-castling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1836","title":{"rendered":"No More Castling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesus monkeys on a downhill slide.<\/p>\n

Everybody who’s not white had better get inside.<\/div>\n
If they’re gonna shoot us just for sleeping in our car,<\/div>\n
someone’s got to step up, tell them this has gone too far.<\/div>\n
One man just got choked to death for selling cigarettes.<\/div>\n
Another lasted nine minutes, but couldn’t hold his breath.<\/div>\n
And now they’re finding young black men are hanging from the trees.<\/div>\n
Enough to make communities say stop this killing, please.<\/div>\n
Systematic racism is born into white blood.<\/div>\n
Those who try to deny this are washing sand with mud.<\/div>\n
Kidnapped to a foreign land, enslaved four hundred years,<\/div>\n
it’s no wonder we’ve projected on them our worst fears.<\/div>\n
Someone keeps my family down for all those centuries<\/div>\n
had best respect my anger now. C’mon now, white man, please.<\/div>\n
There’s got to be a working out for us to heal the nation.<\/div>\n
With twenty-twenty hindsight we must think of reparation.<\/div>\n
Protestors in the streets call out to anyone who cares.<\/div>\n
This country, like\u00a0a chess match, moves on different color squares.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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