Blackness (SW)

Blackness

institutionalized

made to believe that self worth is street rank

kept in cells as new enslavement

gerrymandered and redlined

to keep us behind

tales to keep us second class mankind

disconnected like a phone off the hook

black above reality

blackness is against legality

monarchy and oligarchy galore

those at bottom designed to stay poor  

manipulated

warped black reality

made our communities urban

infiltrated our groups and tried to destroy the black nation

this skin makes us less, unless its the slave trade

afraid of supposed black domination

change the history, distort the truth

try to indoctrinate impressionable white youth

cycle

this never ending loop of poverty

my communities filled with crime and crack

under ronald reagans sovenrty

killed our leaders, murdered the troop

take out the head and who’s running the group

put supremacy in power and divide and keep the loop

kill our people in the street hands up don’t shoot

this skin means power, power to be

to be great

but instead we embody the crime rate

this generational hatred

jim crow taking shape

we shall come together and slay all the hate

and one day we shall all truly, be free