To be Honest… Karen

By Kimelia Carter

 "To be honest

They’re kinda scary

I don’t mean it how it sounds

But they always look so mean

Faces turned down

With no hits of a smile

Maybe they should try to be more presentable

Don’t take things so personal

That man in the news was only killed

Because he wouldn’t listen to officers

If he complied, he would be alive

To be honest

The news said he had been caught with drugs!

He even had a gun

He could have killed someone

So, what if they found it at his home.

We have statistics on this

Video footage too!

Those people have the habit of doing bad things

I’m sorry to say it but doing bad is something they can’t resist.

To be honest

I feel unsafe

I feel threaten

When they are around

The news shows them to be vandals

You saw how they acted when one of them was killed

I will admit what happened to that man was horrible

But that doesn’t give them the right to force us to rebuild

They even destroy their own neighborhoods

It’s obvious that this is their nature

They prefer to live in the ghetto

They don’t know any better

To be honest

Their animals and the ghetto

Keeps them caged 

I’m not saying that it’s right

But it is how it is always been

To be honest

I’m sick of hearing about it

Some have asked

“If you don’t agree with it

Then why won’t you stand against it?”

To be honest

I will stand against it when the blacks

In the ghetto stop carrying illegal weapons

When they stop killing each other

To be honest

I’ll start caring about black people

Whey they stop killing the police"