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Chips

from The Virus by Jesse Jett

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Spoiler alert, this songs about race.
About the sick double standards that some of us face.
And how it’s on the rest of us how we react
Why what you see should be giving you so much to say.
Why it’s important you speak.
Why we aren’t free,
And why we should never behave.


If you don’t think we are systemically biased by race
My DM’s are open
We can do a live chat
I will gladly call a bigot to your face

I’m so VERY interested to hear what you might have to say
Hear you shift blame
Hear you try explaining why a black man ought to get shot over chips but a white man with a flag and a trump banner is allowed to post up and wave 2 handguns outside the place where his governor stays?

Tell me that’s not about race.
Tell me if a black man held up Hospital traffic that he’ would still be here to tell you about it today.

The fuck can you say?

Tell me if an affluent white family’s son got killed over some chips
That you wouldn’t see them the next day on good morning America, bathed in support while they grieve, flashing a link to a gofundme on the screen,

When we all well know they can pay for a grave so it’s basically tips.

Tell me why a man ought to die for some chips.


Tell me why minorities are first to be thrown to the fire when they wanna get things re-opened

Tell me why your chances of succumbing to corona are higher if you’re poor or you’re black and the people who tell you to go back to work ALL KNOW that.

Because half of a million more dead poor won’t have an effect on their bottom line.
Nancy’s ice cream stock won’t show that.

It won’t reflect on the profits that pour in.
Death won’t slow that.

Let THEM do the work if they want it done so bad.

Get Chuck and Trump and Nancy, Pence and Steve and Barr and KellyAnne and Fauci
They can come down, they can bag the groceries
They can stock shelves with no masks in close quarters with some new coworkers who sound like COVID.

If you would die for this country, then show it.
If you don’t think you’re better than those you ask sacrifice of, then show it.

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from The Virus, released May 30, 2020

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