Injustice

It wouldn't be LA with out Mexicans But yo, it wouldn't LA with out Tongva Land Know where you at Show respect to the tribe whose land on which you stand Shout out my relatives showing pride with no tribal id We're erased through paper work and false history Attempts to erase the ancestors were done so violently Its been expressed, Americans will become the new Native American This prophecy comes to fruition Ask Michigan (embridge) Alt wrong marching w torches while bitchin Bout their history being revoked Now where have I heard that story before They got the cops on their side as they act in hate and violence When it's natives in prayer, cops shoot and mace yelling remain silent America intended for their laws to be one sided Tears rolling down my cheeks As we endure injustice in these streets The privileged don't know our pain As they take and take and force their ways Tears rolling down my cheeks As we endure injustice in these streets The privileged don't know our pain As they take and take and force their ways Try to remove our voices, children and rights Then wonder why we resist On our own land it's a struggle to exist We get ignored, disrespected and dismissed Riots from blacks for similar discrepancies against the perpetrators They tell us all to go back to somewhere Failing to acknowledge they're the invaders Their schools fail to teach us our truths and pride So its on us to keep our truths alive Gaining our prides back in these last few decades After our grandparents were cornered into self-hatred Our children's children, will never forget About broken treaties and broken promises They take our land, then give us land, and take it away Yet an Indian giver is what we're named Dead Silent We will never remain Tears rolling down my cheeks As we endure injustice in these streets The privileged don't know our pain As they take and take and force their ways Tears rolling down my cheeks As we endure injustice in these streets The privileged don't know our pain As they take and take and force their ways Fear and atrocious corporal punishment is how the European immigrants Made examples of us since the 1400's and if you think it's a thing of The past, think again, from Leonard Peltier, Orlando Watley to Red Fawn, The system is still finding ways to falsify Cases to imprison as well as murder our people Let us never forget John Trudell's wife, children, And mother in law who were burned to death in a suspicious house fire, Which, was never investigated, John T. Williams a wood carver who was walking down the street carving a Piece of wood was shot 4 times by Seattle's police officer Birk, Allen Locke shot 5 times by officer Meirose in rapid city, Neil StoneChild, Rodney Naistus, & Lawrence Wegner who were individually abandoned in the outskirts of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada by saskatoon police and left to freeze to death, Renee Davis who was contemplating suicide held an empty gun in one Hand and a magazine clip in the other, Paul Castaway who held a knife to his own neck, Both shown signs of depression and clearly needed help, Both shot to death by police, Loreal Barnell who was shot 5 times by arizona police officer Shipley For supposedly holding a pair of scissors, the list goes on. These indigenous injustices get swept under the rug while those Claiming to be in power continue to turn a blind eye. We are thought of and treated as animals, The biggest mistake in that view is that all Animals too are the brothers and sisters of man.