How Can Some Experience What Pride Is Without Liberation for All?

I painted I painted I painted I had nothing else to do The canvas bled As red as my first pressed Tattoo You Marched me to insanity Humanity single-handedly shat on me Suggesting I should add white and blue White and blue Red, white and blue Picture this! Picture this! Photo finished Picture this! Picture this! Photo finished Picture this! Picture this! Photo finished Picture this! Picture this! Photo finished "Never Mind the Bollocks," I'm no singer But my voice is on borrowed time so I'll continue Elaborate on my picture Inspired by the work of Keith Haring—a philanthropist Art is for everybody, and everybody should be an activist! The fact of the matter is, we're divided! But we can educate the ignorant; Reshape education, highlight what mass genocide is Equality and equity! The sound of that, I like it But that cannot be of focus until justice is provided How can some experience what pride is without liberation for all? The oppressed have the right to riot Like Marsha. P. Johnson throughout Stonewall! Discrimination based on migration, I'll never understand But I'll join the cry to protest, and with you, I stand As an alliance, who will not remain quiet And if you're yet to try it, read Ralph Laurence's "Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence" Read, listen, write to your local politician And if you don't step up and be counted You won't be protected by your silence Picture this! Picture this! Photo finished Picture this! Picture this! Photo finished Picture this! Picture this! Photo finished Picture this! Picture this! Photo finished