Power: control or exercise
Went from just sista with the fro to assata Shakur , broke outta prison of the mentality they made me slave to so I whip this knowledge out and call masta teachings ...
Not everyone can comprehend vivid intellect , they write "activist " across their forehead but really are "Inactive" in their actions ... Passive muthafukas
Nigga this and nigga that , I admit when songs come on I be rocking my head singing all the words , just going with the flow .. Yea we may have turned "nigga" into a word of adornment , but from white lips it still stings like hornets... Doesn't change the history we just made it mentally easier to be subjected to such pity ..
Angela Davis taught me how to speak calm but with strength & Stokely Carmichael was the one who put Americas true identify in my head .. Listen to PAC about this panther power ... and James brown was "IM BLACK AND IM PROUD!" Stand up and know your history , been inside society's bubble too long that we're trained to believe everything fed to us
Gun wounds from black people like me , and every time the KKK roll thru best believe the crips and bloods roll Mobb deep, shook ones like tambourines and drums back to Africa with chiefs and u.n.i.t.y , you cant not "deny" how America stripped us of our heritage..
Huey Newton taught me book smart and Bobby Seale was the one who led the streets to self defense .. Malcolm & Martin , Allah & Jesus ... I can't remember the last time we had a leader who wasn't murdered in cold blood ..
The Coons are out and alive , eating at the "Mans" table but forgot they were suckin a black woman's titty to survive birth , created from a black womb to be cultivated , shot thru a black mans sperm to ever Be in existence ... And still tell me to shut the fuck up when speaking real shit
Self hate is the root to all things that haunt people who fear their own race... Comfortable with nigga but not the antonym of it , negus
Comfortable with poverty and how the government placed us in sections to divide us
Comfortable with death by officer .. Leave it too those who aren't strong enough to stand up , quietly whisper to the enemy but pose as conscious
With the melanin poppin & the ankh gold , went all out even got the Afro ... But we the first to explain why a black women is not an opinion for them..
Kathleen cleaver let it be known that the hair within the cells of our make up are as beautiful as straight blonde locs , gave it to use straight and witness cultural appropriation by the ones who claim they hate us , we must , stop the shenanigans but ...will you wake up?
See that same features you have are the ones of Nefertiti's statue , on the walls of Egypt and In the air of Africa itself ..
Rosa parks refuse to get up and I refuse to let up on the discussion and centuries of abuse on our people ..
Nat turner , lead the most remarkable black resistance of enslavement ... But today enslavement is displayed on TV at award shows where making fun of dead black teens has become a trend ..
I see black faces talking about how they want to be in power , there are more oppressed than oppressors so we press on but ain't no body ever press the "rise" button on our people
.. We like puppets to the masta , yeah your free physically but mentally you are a caged man , diabolical sailors took your ancestors from the shores of Africa and put shackles on their limbs.
Does it not bother you that you don't know the tribe your people can from if even the geography were your blood line originated ? You think you only as deep as New York or Miami , L.A or Atlanta .. But we were once kings of nations ..
Those who are down get frowned upon by those who cant comprehend .. Beat us down but scared that people like Donald trump will be president ...and you still don't wanna stand with your brothas ?
Thurgood showed up that even a black soul can be apart of legal systems and Obama let us see that a man of color would be leader of a nation his people built ..
Went from negus to niggas , went from grinding to drums to running from guns. ghetto super star calling it shooting through the hood making death wishes while the clip moving... That's the life they made up , held us hostage mentality and physically put concrete jungles on our door step ...
Since we're black we wanna be near killers right ? And since we're black we rape and we steal right ? Since we're black we're more likely to kidnap and beat up side the head right ?
WRONG ! There are far more fair skins in the system than there are melanin , we just happen to be the spokesperson like paid actors on info commercials ..
Fred Hampton lead the revolution , said "you can jail a revolutionary but you can't jail a revolution"
So it doesn't matter how many of us you lock up , how many of us you send to death row ...the revolution will carry on ..
So my brothas & my sistas .... Are you truly gonna let them have that much "power" over you ??
Or will you exercise your own & let the blood of our people run thru your veins?
