*poem transcript

 Stand Together
Rise Together
No beef, don’t beef no more, nigga
You see they tryna off us until there’s no more niggas
Terrorize our community, but
Demonize us
Telling us
QUIET, nigga!
Silence us
We gotta be nonviolent
Because
Who wants a war with NIGGAS?!
Strong, powerful brothers!
Strong, powerful sisters!
They want us to be good niggas
Dumb niggas
Yessa massa, new black, house ass niggas!
They want us divided, my nigga, but
Make no mistake about it, my nigga and trust
They’ll still hate us standing together
Just as they do when we divided, but my nigga
We still stronger TOGETHER!
Nigga
Nigga
Nigga
I can’t say that?
We can’t say that?
You mad because YOU can’t say that?
WHY you want to say that?
What your privilege got you feeling left out? 
YOU created that!
Now you mad because we took the gun you shot us with
And point it in your direction
And you hate that!
We disarmed you
You want it back
President is black
We disarmed you, you want it back
Slavery is “gone.”
We disarmed you
You want it back
You disarmed our culture
We got it back
You disarmed our knowledge 
We got that shit BACK
We disarmed
You still ATTACK
Stand Together
Rise Together
No beef, don’t beef no more, nigga
You see they tryna off us until there’s no more niggas
She gay, he gay, bisexual, transsexual, heterosexual
Stand Together
Rise Together
No beef, don’t beef no more, nigga
You see they tryna off us until there’s no more niggas
No justice because it wasn’t made for us
Stand Together
Rise Together
No beef, don’t beef no more, nigga
You see they tryna off us until there’s no more niggas


Noir Harris