The System - Prentice Powell

Arsenio the system don’t want us here right now. See, we live in a system that’s designed for us to fail, a system that would tell you no matter how wonderful, how fantastic, how great you think you are there is no you. There is only who I want you to be, from your latest cellphones to the style seen in your most recent videos to my implementation of what you call swag.

If you can’t brag about how many women you have or the $200 denim on your butt you are worthless. Your purse is not hot if it is a Fall edition and we are in the winter. And as long as your kids have Jordans on their feet it is okay. If they have to eat Top Ramen for a week for dinner your check is in the mail.

You fail at becoming grown man. So you don’t bother with your younger ones. Give them to me. I’ll program them to Viacom. Have them growing up with a single mom and no males to emulate and wonder why so many begin to have extensive rap sheets, an ADD with no off switch and download a defense that is nothing, but false self-confident, shown through them being overly aggressive.

Your misguided women want nothing but diamonds and Fendi or dreams of finding a professional athlete to pay for their lives because to them being a wife is not a lifestyle, it is trendy. Trendy to have like a little black dog carried around in a bag, the demasculinization of your black man is going according to plan. Flip flip the coin and for those who have chose not to go down that road, make sure that any statement they make that may challenge their masculinity are followed by statements of insecurity we can’t have them thinking for themselves.

[Prentice Powell:] Source: LYBIO.net
Program dreams to be a mirage, close enough to see yet too far to reach, set their aesthetics to pathetic aka camouflage allow them to blend in keyword ‘trend’. Downtown corner is full of rappers who refuse to give up even though their stuff sucks, but we allow them to say their piece. At the very lease it will make them a quick buck. Any more success initiate operation exploitation, throw them a bit more cash. I am – I am the system, program to initiate command, error; you people are programmed not to ask. You are nothing more than empty vessels who have sold their souls a long time ago and you call me robotic.

I am the system, systematically set to just do. You are systematically set to just do and not think and you call me robotic ever, redundancy ever, repeat ever, redundancy – pardon me. I was scanning your culture’s current popular music. You want a cop to pay for killing one of you, but carry a “no snitching” policy in your own community, which allows, which allows, which allows, which allows, which allows you negros, error, you negros error you negros, error, you people to have absolutely no accountability irony overload reset.

[Prentice Powell:] Source: LYBIO.net
I am the sssssystem. Systematically set to desensitize your senses and senseless activity, surrounds your society, simultaneously making you love me while sh-sh-shaking in your boot and for those who dare to overthrow me allow me to remind thee it is I who provided you with the land and seed you use to grow your little grass roots. I am the system.

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Our Lives Matter

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" - Martin Luther King

The very root to the injustice we as a minority are facing is due to the mentality that some lives matter more than others. Every time we promote the #blacklivesmatter slogan we are no better than the oppressor. We need to stand up and fight for justice and equality for all lives not just black lives, or blue lives, etc. You do not have to be black in order to be outraged, nor do you have to be black in order to matter. It saddens me that so many scream in outrage at the slaughtering of our people, yet turn around and commit, share, comment on, repost, like, and laugh at the slaughtering of our people. How can we expect change and justice for all when we refuse to take the first step. If we are going to protest and march and fight. If we are going to demand black lives matter or all lives matter. If we are going to demand equality and justice we need to live like it and not be a stereotype while we are at it. We need to start living by the law, as well as, learning the law. I am not trying in any way shape or form  to group a set of people together under the same category, but there is a reason the oppressor keeps oppressing. We give them excuses, reasons, justifications. If we ourselves are not committing the act; we are sharing it, laughing about it, reposting it. We are guilty not only by the company we keep but the information we seek and what we post and share. Guilty by association is what it is referred to as. Sometimes it isn't what it is but rather what it looks like. It is time we unite on all levels everyday; not just when someone is killed by the police. What about when one black person or minority kills another? Do we protest that? What about when two minority officers are murdered while sitting in their car by a crazed gunman? Do we protest that? What about when four white officers kill one black officer? Do we protest that? When will we do better rather than get bitter? When will we take accountability and change? When will we boost our people up rather than tear our people down? We need to take the first step and be the example. #ourlivesmatter #alllivesmatter At the end of the day rather than be angry at each other we need to come to the realization that hate and racism is not a characteristic someone is born with; it is a learned trait. We need to start with our youth and teach them love and respect. We need to show the world we are not what they think we are, and we need to live up to our full potential which is endless!!!! We need to use all of the tools at our disposal and uplift our communities. We need to do better.