The Bullet

We aint vote to get into this shit!
So we won’t vote to get out!
(repeat 3 times)

We aint vote to be colonized and enslaved
We aint vote to be tamed
We aint vote to suppress our rage and be trained
We aint vote to be driven insane
We aint vote to be disproportionately jailed
to be nailed to a cross daily and tragically killed
We aint vote to be the guinea pigs for the birth control pill
Or to be given syphilis by the soulless and
denied medication while we lied ill

We aint vote to be the first played … the last paid … and the last saved … in the last days
We aint vote to be stripped of our dignity and become afraid
We aint vote to end fighting for liberty
for it is still necessary by any means
We aint vote to temporarily camouflage our poverty in the stupidity of demonic dreams
And we aint vote on the way reality is perceived
As so many of us seem to be seriously deceived
We only know what we’re allowed to see
So sadly anything that is on TV is believed

We aint vote to give the police the power to unleash a wrath
that would slowly devour our people in a blood bath
Surrounding us with a reality of death until there is nothing left
Yeah you do the math

We aint vote to be this much miss-educated
We aint vote to be kidnapped, separated and traded
Segregated to be integrated
We didn’t vote to have our sisters sexually violated
We didn’t vote to have our brothers special educationally castrated
To have them both to be later incarcerated
Incinerated
Left totally devastated
Almost dead and forever looked upon by society as the most hated
We didn’t vote
We didn’t vote for the demonic blockade on Cuba
We didn’t vote for the false trumped up charges on Assata
Got these crackers so mad, only 90 miles from America
And they still can’t fuckin’ touch her
So you tell me who’s freer?
Now that’s Black Power!
We aint vote

We aint vote for the assassination of Malcolm and Che
the torture of Albizu
We aint vote for the unlawful incarceration of Mumia
We aint vote to sign his death warrant
And we can’t just vote to stop them either

Wasn’t it Malcolm who stated “The Ballot or the Bullet”
This last part about the Bullet we must have forgot
Because if Malcolm was alive he wouldn’t have hesitated this long to pull it
And most of these reactionary, side-stepping motherfuckers would have gotten shot
What!

Cause we aint vote to get into this shit!
So we won’t vote to get out!
(Repeat 3 times)

By Ray Ramirez