Your National Anthem Today, a Black man who was once a Black boy like you got down on one of his knees and laid his helmet on the grass as this country sang its ode to the promise it never kept and the woman in the grocery store line in front of us is on the phone and she is telling someone on the other line that this Black man who was once a Black boy like you should be grateful we live in a country where people aren’t killed for things like this you know, she says, in some places they would hang you for such a blatant act of disrespect, maybe he should go live there instead of here so he can
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