We Keep Each Other Safe

It's not enough to be not racist We gotta be anti-racist And link up with the millions of people of color longing to be free From this culture of death Our white ancestors left Find our humanity And then get rid of the cop on the block Get rid of the cop in our head and our heart We'll be so much better off When we keep each other safe Now imagine this Somebody breaks in your house and they steal your stuff Cause they needed money to feed their kids and they can't find a job So a community safety team Finds out what they need And they help them find a good job And they apologize and pay you back every cent We can get rid of the cop on the block Get rid of the cop in our head and our heart We'll be so much better off When we keep each other safe Does this sound totally impossible? Like a science fiction dream Well that's what they said about slavery and ending Jim Crow The institutions our ancestors made Can be un-made if we make it so! And we get rid of the cop on the block Get rid of the cop in our head and our heart We'll be so much better off When we keep each other safe And we get rid of the cop on the block Get rid of the cop in our head and our heart We'll be so much better off When we keep each other safe