At Hot Times, We’ll be performing “F.O.P.”, our new-ish piece written in response to the murder of Casey Goodson. It seems appropriate to share it here on this Labor Day weekend just after the murder of another unarmed Black man by another Columbus F.O.P. member.
F O P
F-ed up Our Police!
Say What?
F O P
F-ed UP Our Police!
Say What?
F O P
F-ed up OUR Police!
Say Wh?
Wait a minute.
Whatchu mean OUR police?
Ain’t never been OUR police!
Rich white people’s police – yeah.
But never OUR police.
Lot of ‘em started out slave-catchers.
Most of the rest were Pinkerton or the like
They were jackals working for
the WHITE Man.
The white MAN recruited brutalizers,
vicious men kill without thought
Like brass knuckles over bare
slit a throat easy as take a piss
men with Fists Of Pain
F O P
Fists Of Pain
They recruited the bullies the rapists
Belittlers and petty tyrants
Men who take advantage of the weak
Men enticed by the Flatulent Odor of Power
F O P
Men Full Of Petty Power
And when the people fought the power
These were the men who put them down.
F O P
Fists Of the Powerful
Criminals in service to the rich
The palace guard of white su-pre-ma-cy
NOT OUR police!
The Fraternal Order of Police
uses “past practice” to justify and protect
Full On Perpetrators
F O P
Full On Perpetrators of murder and mayhem.
(Guitar solo…)
Past Practice.
Past Practice
past practice is hunting Africans escaped from forced labor camps
past practice in American policing is lynching Emmett Till
Police in the Klan
Past Practice
Past Practice
past practice is busting heads and busting unions –
Police in the firing squads at Ludlow.
Past Practice is attacking protesters –
Selma Montgomery Columbus
Past Practice
Past Practice
Past practice is murdering activists –
Police at Fred Hampton’s
In the background of Malcolm X
In the Shadow of Hoover’s FBI
Past practice
Past Practice
Past Practice is white race riot murders
Police in the mobs of Tulsa and East St. Louis
Past practice is The blue wall of silence
With police in militias, nazis, and proud boys
Past practice
Past Practice
Past Practice is racism and sexism and religious discrimination
Treason and insurrection
Bigotry and hatred
Past practice is Full of Police
F O P
Full of Police for Black Lives Matter
But free of police
F O P
Free of Police for insurrectionists
And now that’s past practice
Past practice is F- Our People
F O P
F-ed Our People
New practice
Free Our People
