We've become hopeless and souless
Cuz they stole us
And sold us
For sugar, rum, and gold dust
Stacked into slave ships
Packed in like tins of small fish
To be smacked into the Plymouth Rock,
And the culture shock of auction blocks
where we were sold and bought
like bonds and stocks
They displaced us; disgraced us
Raped and debased us
They took everything from us
They took away Prosser, Vesey and Turner
Replaced it with sambos, mammies
Amos and andies,
They took away our history
And replaced it with a hyphenated ethnicity
They took everything from us
And then they gave us free...
...And then they gave us crack -
And now we're too broke to ever give that back.
Now, I got jewels and money stacks
And I got them things that boom and clap
So went to prison got a GED
Got on parole and on EBT
Now they Stop me and now they Frisk me
and sudden movements are way too risky
Because the police shoot to kill us
And then the city bills us
They take everything from us
They do give us toe drags and body bags and activism hashtags
They take away education and give us incarceration
And racially biased adjudication
They take everything from us
They use the school to prison pipeline to gentrify the Eastside
To steal away our sunshine
They use our own kind and white lies
to prosecute Black lives
they take everything from us
They took away the cool #7 Kaepernick
and give us a coon #7: Michael Vick
They take everything from us
And They still take us and they mace us
Tackle us and taze us
billy club and break us
And they Trumped us because they hate us
They rather replace us than relate to or equate to us
They're taking everything from us
And now we are a people broken and ripped wide open
turned into Aunt Jemimas, Uncle Tom's and Candace Owens
And they still reject us and disrespect us
suspect us and arrest us
they're taking everything from us
They're taking everything from us
They're taking everything from us
They're taking everything from us
not even leaving us...US
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