Post by griot on Aug 13, 2005 22:29:51 GMT -5
this is a poem/song off my album the current struggle
My lyrics hit the front page like bad news/
current state of the Black race got my lady singing the blues/
Black man been building for 300 years payin dues/
Still we lose/
Cause equality doesnt exsist/
Riots clense the system/
Reincarnation of Black fists and afro picks/
Cause they stole everything from our culture to our soul/
Black has got us the lowest on the toetum pole/
Weve been tested on, beat upon, and straight exterminated/
Churches burned, my people hung and castrated/
And yet were the ones feared and hated/
Segregated no longer in public weve been divided in the mind/
willie lynches theory left me people third eyes blind/
FORever behind/
Cause we lack the riches of self pride/
The current struggle wanna live dont wanna die!
The Black awekining wake up. Its time to RISE UP!
Red said it best when it was time for some action/
It needs to be affirmative now watch their reaction/
We totaled up equal rights and were still coming up short/
After riots, sit ins, legislation the supreme court/
Plessy vs ferguson brown vs the board/
Since 1968 the whole Black race been ignored/
Shot King in the mouth and it silenced us all/
Set a couple of us free now its divided we fall/
United we stand but thats to spend money at malls/
or bounce balls/
But there aint no net in my basket/
A 100 millon Africans killed as slaves and they act like its magic/
6 million jews killed and now its tragic/
Were second class citizens from a third world nation/
We made a few gains you say?
SO WHAT WE FACING?
HOLOCAUST to GENOCIDE if we dont start re-arranging/
Cause througout history revolotion been the quickest way to changing!
The current struggle wanna live dont wanna die!
The Black awekining wake up. Its time to RISE UP!
My lyrics hit the front page like bad news/
current state of the Black race got my lady singing the blues/
Black man been building for 300 years payin dues/
Still we lose/
Cause equality doesnt exsist/
Riots clense the system/
Reincarnation of Black fists and afro picks/
Cause they stole everything from our culture to our soul/
Black has got us the lowest on the toetum pole/
Weve been tested on, beat upon, and straight exterminated/
Churches burned, my people hung and castrated/
And yet were the ones feared and hated/
Segregated no longer in public weve been divided in the mind/
willie lynches theory left me people third eyes blind/
FORever behind/
Cause we lack the riches of self pride/
The current struggle wanna live dont wanna die!
The Black awekining wake up. Its time to RISE UP!
Red said it best when it was time for some action/
It needs to be affirmative now watch their reaction/
We totaled up equal rights and were still coming up short/
After riots, sit ins, legislation the supreme court/
Plessy vs ferguson brown vs the board/
Since 1968 the whole Black race been ignored/
Shot King in the mouth and it silenced us all/
Set a couple of us free now its divided we fall/
United we stand but thats to spend money at malls/
or bounce balls/
But there aint no net in my basket/
A 100 millon Africans killed as slaves and they act like its magic/
6 million jews killed and now its tragic/
Were second class citizens from a third world nation/
We made a few gains you say?
SO WHAT WE FACING?
HOLOCAUST to GENOCIDE if we dont start re-arranging/
Cause througout history revolotion been the quickest way to changing!
The current struggle wanna live dont wanna die!
The Black awekining wake up. Its time to RISE UP!
