Everything’s Political
Poverty is politics
Racism is politics
Sexism is politics
Classism is politics
Capitalism, politics
Fuck those politics
We live in ghettos, neighborhoods where they put all the colored folks, cause everything’s political
Poverty is permanent, that’s how it’s designed, got to be careful, cause it fucks with your mind
Many get stuck sucking liquor from the liquor store, or they try to go and rob that liquor store
So white folks making big bucks from the prison and the store, everything’s political
The radio tells kids to kill their brother, disrespect their sister and mother, and never teaches them to be a father
Corporate execs, created a hip hop subset, called trap music, telling kids to carry techs, pop pills and flip bricks, for a little bit of cheese
With out telling them that the guns, drugs and tracks all coming from the place, racists, who want to put us in a social basement
Everything political
As a kid I grew up in a single bedroom, with my whole family, parents paying rent, that’s life in the hood
Solitary confinement for me, parents didn’t want me playing up in the streets, too hot, like the sweatshop where they work at
They decided to return to Aztlan in the eighties, ignorant people can’t comprehend the importance of migration, so they call em illegal and threaten us with deportation
Talking bout these goons, who up to high school, try telling me they’re cool, in their textbooks that you read in public school
Like a fool fell for it, cause on TV all you see is fucking myths telling you believe that bull, that will make you brain rot and stop having thoughts
Happens a lot in the hood, where there are no books, and on top of that nobody reads, but everybody watches TV
Everything’s political
In Carver middle school no one talked about what college they going too, they already want to go pro, trying to impress the scouts, hoping they get drafted to join the local gang
That’s all they seen since they were two, family in it too, or not around to tell em not to
Token teacher a sell out, lying to the kids, creating a reality by saying they’re nothing
The kids take it seriously and out of anxiety to prove the teacher wrong, they join a crew
Happens everyday in LAUSD classrooms, multiplied by all the shitty districts on earth
Those who weren’t part of that were still around that, cause no one cares about school, no studying just surviving, since it reflects a mini prison
In Santee high nothing seem to change, shit just kept on getting strange, teachers meaner, and the students demeanor, that of a prisoner
One trying to get off by doing good behavior or one doing life, but nonetheless a prisoner
Slaves getting trained to do modern day servitude, wheatear you drop out of school or graduate
Chances are your fate is minimum wage, or no pay in the pen where they work you like an animal
Everything’s political
Many buy the lies they spread in society; swag, class, and that so they stay stuck on a fake dream
Suddenly when you try replicate all you see on the screens, you get angry because it aint happening
Then take it out on everybody without realizing the impossibility of what you’re trying to complete
Fantasy is something that can’t be in reality, your just wasting energy instead of helping family
That was me
What a fallacy, that damages the vision of your most important eye, making the maze, the ghetto is, harder to escape
I escaped, momentarily, barely, I believe, because I had both parents backing me, not saying they were perfect, but they believed in me
First year in university I was so sick, was still a prisoner inside my head, blamed myself for the systematic inequalities I lived
Without even knowing what that means, or that, that was and is my reality, a brown working class man in this society
Second year, had my awakening, dropping econ for poli sci, picking up chicana studies, and a black studies class
Actually began to read, and started to see, clearly with the eye inside my mind Malcolm, Bobby, Huey and Gloria all spoke to me
Political theories and philosophies helped me understand the situation, and see how those in power crate them through manipulation
So now I know, that everything is political
Be political but don’t fall for the system, inspect everything with your mind, and you decided what’s right
If we realize they depend on us, prey on us to keep their empires alive, then we can save lives
Don’t believe all lies they show on social media, TV, Radio, and the movies, that‘s how they trick and deceive
The system don’t care about us, matter of fact, they have fuck shit up for us, for them to have their crap
To create this country, they stole our land, to make all their money, they made us slave, and to maintain order, they send us to war
How is it possible? Well everything’s political, and they control the corrupt political system
It’s all rigged, that what we got to see, but the systems got you tapped and you cant react
But just look at what’s happing around the world, freedom means bomb, peace means missiles, love means borders, and aid, is racism
Everything is backwards and many believe it, that’s because they don’t know, how everything is political
When you rearrange your focus and long term goals, anything is possible, even freedom for the hoods
Yeah you heard right, if you disagree with that, you’re upholding the right and their system, fuck that and them
This my politic, since everything political
Take care and love those around you the most, because they’re your people, they define you
They created you, so be careful what you do, love yourself, why would you hurt them and yourself
Love people unconditional, think critical, and see reality for what it is, how everyone’s is suffering for the greed of their politic
Most importantly do everything for your communities; solidarity is key, that’s how we’ll be free
