I am calling for a Flag War Armistice. I have been impaled with at least two flags today, but I take them on the chest. I don't hold anything against the flag thrower.
Please all actors involved with this war, let's call an Armistice, until we have opened up some new dialogue in resolving this; before we get back to war. Armistice officially begins at midnight (whenever that is!) but please put your flags down now.
"I remember you was conflicted
Misusing your influence
Sometimes I did the same
Abusing my power, full of resentment
Resentment that turned into a deep depression
Found myself screaming in the hotel room
I didn’t wanna self destruct
The evils of Lucy was all around me
So I went running for answers
Until I came home
But that didn’t stop survivor’s guilt
Going back and forth trying to convince myself the stripes I earned
Or maybe how A-1 my foundation was
But while my loved ones was fighting the continuous war back in the city, I was entering a new one
A war that was based on apartheid and discrimination
Made me wanna go back to the city and tell the homies what I learned
The word was respect
Just because you wore a different gang color than mine's
Doesn’t mean I can’t respect you as a black man
Forgetting all the pain and hurt we caused each other in these streets
If I respect you, we unify and stop the enemy from killing us
But I don’t know, I’m no mortal man, maybe I’m just another nigga” - Kendrick Lamar
@RiskDebonair
Irish Flag War Scientist