Of any apartment building in Dallas Texas I just shot a man But how in the world can you blame me He was not supposed to be here Should have gone with everyone else On Marcus Garvey's Black Star line… Should have gotten out of Texas When Lincoln made his postwar suggestion
That all niggers should move to Panama
Because after all, the Civil War was really our fault I just shot a man Sitting in his apartment that I thought was mine Don’t blame me There's a reason why the stripes on the flag are lily white And Chief Justice Roger Taney had that
Etched in stone insight: Black people will never have respected rights I just shot a man Looking up just long enough from sexting To swipe him left With the end of my glock With less than a second thought I just shot a man There's all kinds of theories why Maybe I was distracted Maybe I was just tired Maybe I just lied ... I just shot a man Because I was just tired Of being treated like a trophy Tired of being arm candy on the elbow of a basketball player Tired of being appropriated That's my good hair being sold in weave shops That even Beyonce co ops That's my bulimia Being taught as a method of staying in shape for fall fashion I just shot a man Because I am still invisible Still not good enough to stop
Thomas Jefferson from f****** the women he thought were subhuman And those people they said that had no rights...? Got the one to vote before I did... I just shot a man I'm sure it was a monster So I shot him to stop him From seizing me and treating me like King Kong did Fay Wray I just shot a man And just where do you think Darren Wilson learned to do that from? We’re the ones who raised the sons that put on the badges Handed down from fugitive slave captors Mama's the one that taught them fear Rodney King and Mike Brown
Are the results of what we've whispered in their ear I just shot a man Because I'm scared that the lashes on your back Will eventually cause you to lash back You might pity us or learn to love us But you will always turn on us Look at Nat Turner For all his heroism and rebellion He only killed one person A Maggie with the good hair That he loved secretly Who he bashed with a fence post All because he was being taunted by the homie to prove his Blackness So I shot a man While he was eating ice cream It was probably vanilla Which means he only wanted to devour me Because black power means kill Whitey And ain’t I somebody? Ain’t I a woman? Why can’t I have a dream? I just wanted to be a cop do drug busts and traffic stops rid the streets of bank robbers and dope fiends walk my racist dog live my racist dreams Not be like the Dallas cops shot by Micah Johnson in 2017
I just shot a man Why am i not a hero? I mean if you look at my shots as preemptive Then what I did might just be redemptive One way or another I got a drug dealer off the street Maybe I saved a baby mama from getting beat Maybe he sold cocaine Maybe him and his homies ran trains I just shot a man After all, ain't I an endangered species? Even the sun doesn't like me No level of spf is enough protection From all this pro black radiation And the burning lasers of the sisters' eyes If I walk down streets with a brotha's hand in mine I just shot a man Because We still feel cheated Lying in bed all alone in that big ol plantation home While hubby is out back Visiting late night in the servants shack I just shot a man Seems to be the only way to get attention The only way we're considered alive Is when we take someone else's life I just shot a man 2 shots to the chest For wanting to stare so hard at mine But I'ma be ok Just gimme a Bible and hug From the brotha and the judge I just shot a man But I have little doubt I'll soon be forgot for some other scared cop Seeing the next person sitting on their own couch Peeking thru a window... ...Ready to take the next shot...
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