Def poetry jam slam is just urban hate speech <br />By Reid Baer<br /><br />Def poetry jam slam is just urban hate speech<br />to me and because I’m white don’t mean it’s alright<br />for you to scream in my ear - you hear – what did I<br />ever do to you except be white? It’s all good – <br /><br />You do what you want in your hood and I’ll be fine<br />in mine. There’s no animus here man, you ain’t my <br />enemy, and anybody can be racist! <br />I’m an artist like you telling it straight like I <br /><br />See it. You dig? You got no basis for slingin’ <br />slurs at me and lashing out at me - and sure <br />as shit you ain’t gonna be free by setting your<br />sites on me - so what say you start looking to your-<br /><br />Self on your own streets my brother? because I ain’t <br />the one killin’ your kin and your blame game just ain’t<br />no way to win - it’s a dead end road and gonna <br />get you nowhere but famous, dead or in prison. <br /><br />Look, I know about oppression, and anger and<br />demons of my own that just don’t care about the <br />color of our skin – we’re all human beings here -<br />I got my deep personal work to do, don’t you?!<br />-
