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Tuskegee

People keep talking about American History
Settlers, Native Americans and the 12 colonies
Why don't we talk about Tuskegee?
But, I would bet your white laced, white fenced,
white teachers didn't teach you this black history
But if you are going to call yourself American, you should
probably know what America has done to their people.

1932. Tuskegee Mississipi, most abhorent happening in medical history
Scientists used the black man as a guniea pig.
They didn't ask for medical consent
The slick sickness of their syphilis quickly set in
A cure was alive but it wasn't worth a black life
For 40 years, they withheld live-saving treatment.
It's easy to forget, blinded by entitlement
400 patients. Only 79 survived.
They were told that this study would help them thrive
but all it was white man lies.

A white man standing in front of a white building
that was built on the backs of the blacks
as he tries to retract the lies told on this country's behalf
What Clinton didn't know was that an apology does not
reprise the 300 bodies that lay beneath the foundation of
our country

We shame every country for their abominations
The Holocaust, Rwanda's Genocide, the Arab Spring
But here on the home plate of terror, we're getting grand slams
Trail of Tears, Wounded Knee, Internment Camps and Tuskegee
America's Nuremberg. We will never accept our history.
Despite these american atrocities, we still misteach our own history
This isn't a game of pick and choose. Lives are not commodities

I want to know our whole story, of the red white and blue
I want to the reality, and i want that for you
I want to know what is true
Because black lives matters, and black history does too

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