KEEP ON PUSHING

Appears we have forgotten how to fight anything but one another


What happened to fighting for education or safer neighborhoods?

Those days when we thought of one another as Sisters and Brothers

Growing up in the city but behaving as if we are from the back woods



Young people in need of love and respect but have no where to turn

Good teachers are discouraged and flee from the cities to the suburbs

All this madness around them, how are our children suppose to learn

12th graders who do not know the difference between verbs and adverbs



Police, once worried about being kicked, now worry about being killed

Six year olds and nineteen year olds are all carrying guns to schools

Shooting people for induction into neighborhood gangs are their thrills

Our clean, well-kept neighborhoods have become drug-ridden cesspools



Malcolm X, George Jackson, Stokley Carmichael must be furious

Imagine, they gave their lives so our children and we could have ours

To have a better way of life, parents nor children today, seem curious

Their lives just slipping away while they drink, drug or sleep for hours



No, this is not true of all African Americans but it is for far too many

Problem being, the negative numbers are not shirking but growing larger

If we do not wake-up now, a future, our children truly will not have any

Number of African American children killed or arrested grows each year



Some reality, things will definitely not get better if we “throw in the towel”

Let us wake-up, come together and for everyone’s sake, find a solution

Those who would like the situation to remain is not asleep but on the prowl

If Children are to survive Adults and I mean ALL adults, “Keep On Pushing”



Keep Fighting For Our Children...They Need Us