Nizar Wattad (aka Ragtop) Free the P
By Guest Post • Jul 29th, 2009 at 12:13 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Features, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance
I Place my palms to the East
where my people seek peace
And freedom from police control, checkpoints and patrols
Domination from another nation
We used to be brothers like Cain
Now they got us living under occupation the pain
Is just a feeling I can't possibly explain
But the population of Palestine could probably paint
A proper picture of their predicament to publish and frame
Put it down for posterity's sake:
Free the P
Which stands for free the Public from the Prejudices
That Pop culture Places in your Psyche Permanently
Propaganda from the President to the media Pundits
To Preachers Preaching on the TV 'bout the People who done it
Politicians getting Paid to Put People in Prison
For Puffing Pot and just building
Something different from what they live in the vision
Is not to give in but to just give 'em hell
Impel Proactive change with the thoughts I Propel -
Free the P?
That's for anybody trapped in jail
That should be free instead of breathing stale air in a cell
For every Parent that to Protect their child would spark heat?
Free the P is for the women living in this Patriarchy
And for all the artists
That do this shit from the heart:
From the West Bank to the West Coast we start
To connect and get close, Professin' our best hopes -
Despite the stress blessed 'cause it's something in our chest
That Love -
Nizar Wattad (aka Ragtop) was born in Palestine and raised in Tennessee, USA. He is a Palestinian-American hip-hop artist and screenwriter. He earned his undergraduate degree from the George Washington University in 2001, and has since written and edited for several literary and news publications. Wattad earned an M.A. in screenwriting from the University of Southern California in 2006, and his thesis screenplay Agency, was a semi-finalist in that year's Final Draft Big Break, Brass Brad Mentorship and ABC/Walt Disney Company Writing Fellowship competitions.
This poem is from Poets for Palestine, edited by Remi Kanazi.
http://palestinethinktank.com/2008/12/10/poets-for-palestine/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizar_Wattad
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