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I Can't Breathe

H.E.R.

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Trying times all the time

Destruction of minds, bodies, and human rights

Stripped of bloodlines, whipped and confined

This is the American pride

It’s justifying a genocide

Romanticizing the theft and bloodshed

That made America the land of the free

To take a black life, land of the free

To bring a gun to a peaceful fight for civil rights

You are desensitized to pulling triggers on innocent lives

Because that’s how we got here in the first place

These wounds sink deeper than the bullet

Your entitled hands could ever reach

Generations and generations of pain, fear, and anxiety

Equality is walking without intuition

Saying the protector and the killer is wearing the same uniform

The revolution is not televised

Media perception is forced down the throats of closed minds

So it’s lies in the headlines

And generations of supremacy resulting in your ignorant, privileged eyes

We breathe the same and we bleed the same

But still, we don’t see the same

Be thankful we are God-fearing

Because we do not seek revenge

We seek justice, we are past fear

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Disponível em: https://www.vagalume.com.br. Acesso em 25 fev. 2021.

Canções de protesto estão sendo cada vez mais comuns na sociedade americana que enfrenta, há décadas, uma sangrenta batalha por igualdade social. Os vocábulos desensitized e wounds, na música apresentada, ajudam a construir uma reflexão sobre

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