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I Can't Breathe

from For the People by Rad Radical

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Eric Garner, Michael Brown
Trayvon Martin all cut down
From coast to coast, and town to town
The families never heal

Oscar Grant and Sandra Bland
Walter Scott, no gun in hand
Philando, Tamir, it never ends
Racist cops, no appeal

We all let Charles Kinsey down
Shot by cops while on the ground
From most of us, not a fucking sound
Much less a show of grief

So stand up now and clear a path
A righteous march that’s borne of wrath
Through the flashbangs and tear gas
Just to fucking breathe

Hands up! Don’t shoot!
Hands up! Don’t shoot me!
Hands up! Don’t shoot!
‘Cause I can’t breathe

Militant cops roll their tanks
Trying to break through the ranks
Those ARs sure ain’t filled with blanks
The people on the run

What goes around, it comes around
‘Cause Ferguson is every town
We’ve got more boots on the ground
But they’ve got all the guns

Hands up! Don’t shoot!
Hands up! Don’t shoot me!
Hands up! Don’t shoot!
‘Cause I can’t breathe

Communities are under siege
Citizens brought to their knees
And executed in their streets
With impunity

There’s no accountability
For cops and their brutality
Turning black towns into DMZs
Then given immunity

Hands up! Don’t shoot!
Hands up! Don’t shoot me!
Hands up! Don’t shoot!
‘Cause I can’t breathe

I can’t breathe

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from For the People, released October 10, 2019

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Rad Radical San Jose, California

Make music. Make art. Then give it away.

Anti-racist, anti- fascist.

I’m absolutely convinced of the power of the audience to come together, to help each other through bad times. It’s what the Clash did for me. They gave me music and community and politics and a belief that anything was possible. The future is, indeed, unwritten. ... more

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