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Under a Sky So Blue​-​Don't Shoot

from Split 7" with Celebration by Under A Sky So Blue

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There is no justification when people cling to racism. Our silence must no longer act as consent. Dehumanizing, vilifying, smearing, underlying causes to justify hate crimes.
Kill straighten your blurred lines, forced out the truth dies with the outspoken cries.
No answer to oppression, drawing nearer the dawn of extinction.
Right to well being is all encompassing.
Abolish hate, achieve equality.
Abolish hate.
Achieve equality.

I would like to preface this by stating that we are all born with the ineffable right to well-being. While every life matters that is not what the subject at hand is or will be. Black lives matter, this needs to be stated because, at this moment they still do not. “Black Lives Matter” must and will be impressed upon every rational being upon the planet.

From the moment we heard about the unjustified killing of Mike Brown in Ferguson and sub sequential killings of other people of color by racist, profiling pieces of shit in the “Justice” Department, we collectively decided that we were going to take action in solidarity with Ferguson and other activists by using our voices to speak out against the institutionalized racism practiced by law enforcement officers, not only in Missouri, but across the entire country.
Police are afforded ultimate privilege, courtesy of the state and our tax dollars. “Comply or Die” seems to be the way cops are taking their interactions with civilians, especially if you’re of color. With guns bolstered and superiority complexes in tow they justify their escalations of violence as if they’re peace officers from Dodge City. This isn’t the 18th century and they're not Wyatt Earp.
Why continue to trust civil servants that are trained from day one to be uncompassionate and untrusting? These people are not the staunch defenders of peace they would have you believe; you’re a number, more money for the state: they are trained to extort, abuse, incriminate and incarcerate you.
These are capricious murderers that will harm or kill you based on skin color or body language out of “fear.”
“Fear.”
Who’s the most fearful? Who has the most reason to be untrusting?
“There is no justification when people cling to racism. Our silence must no longer act as consent.” Will wrote these words well after we had finalized the lyrics for Don’t Shoot, however, how necessary an addition they were is enraging and disgusting. We live in an age of faux equality. Every time you divert or victim blame you are furthering racism. We’re done. We will abolish this hatred by demolishing capitalism and patriarchy, the very systems that manufactured and reinforce it.

Black Lives Matter. No Justice, No Peace.

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from Split 7" with Celebration, released December 29, 2014

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Three piece anarchist screamo from Athens, GA.
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