This is a piece about some issues of the Hmong community that has been bugging me for awhile. The case about a kid "Fong Lee" being killed by a Minneapolis Police officier, a Hmong man being imprisoned for being in a car that killed 3 people "Koua Fong Lee" and last is the Hmong guy that was trying to sell his car and was killed by other Hmong men for wanting some parts off the car. It's these 3 news that gave me the anger and energy to produce this piece...I'm jus being as honest as possible, be offended or inspired. Im speaking my mind...
this is dedicated to the families and friends that are effected by these news
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My eyes are small
Ready to gleam through it all
My words are strong
Setting it off like a bomb
Got this fire they keep on feeding
Want me to bring the harm
Ask me why I'm so angry
And I'll be ready to tell it all!
They want me to stay calm
Blood boiling, it's peaking rage
My words an animal ready to escape
They're scare cause I'm shaking the cage!
Are you ready? I'm set to engage!!
In combat with the brigade, like a renegade I'm unleashing the pain, like a grenade I'm exploding with range!
Call us a gang...a set of thugs with our hands on our pen, our eyes to the sky with our mind on the prize
We've seen the demise of our own kind
Our soul, we've yet to find...and you ask me why I'm so angry at times
Cause we got cops killing kids and getting awards for that shit
We all know you're a murderer, please admit to that shit!
You planted that gun next to his soulless body you bitch!
Now you got mourners to mourn for that bike riding kid...who ran for his life cause he don't trust no cops!
Why should he, when one took his chance from ever making to the top...Look how the media portray this kid from the start, tryna justify for the killing from a cop
...And you wonder why I'm so angry
Keeping an innocent man behind bars like he's angry
Like he's a menace to society
Like if he gets out, he'll hop back in a Camry?!
See...all he wants to be is free and kiss his family
Would this of happen if his color was white and his name was Teddy?
I don't know...but he wasn't and his name is Koua Fong Lee!
So fuck the system for tryna keep a free man down...
Cause he's a Free man now...
...and you wonder why I'm so angry
Hmong killing Hmong is old story
That's an issue that has been carried...
But killing over car parts that's crazy
How could they take a father from his family?
Killed him for stupid shit that all you have to do is WORK hard for that money!
And now his wife is all lonely...
Cause they took him away and that's no story
...Damn
...and you wonder why I'm so angry
Cause we got too many news stories of our families
one too many bodies that didn't need to be buried
always fighting like a fury while our eyes gets teary
Mouth trembles as our hands grow weary
You're tired and you, I pledge to carry
...I'm angry
...So this fire they keep on feeding
this beast will keep on eating
As long I keep breathing
My lungs will never collapse
Until the reaper collects...
These words will forever connect
For you I swore to protect...
And my anger will stay on and never forget...
...and you wonder why I'm so angry
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