Brainwashed by the melanin watchers

Salty every time a nigga gets honored

Self love stoppers

Like racist otters

Claws sticky from traveling cross bloodstained waters

Jump Jim Crow gave me stage fright

Saying with my an-ces-try

Ex-pect-tree to be my grave site

Hanged for looking at daughters

Ironically that was the only way they allowed my DEscendants to ASCEND

If there's black in your past your slapped with the task of carrying slave ships daily

All of the weight

None of the credit

I always kept a close eye on genocidal avalanches cause they never lied about wanting to bury me

The very least

I was expecting

Was to get blindsided by a wrecking ball as black as I am

Lynching became illegal

Because some realized that it was a disgusting act

While many others realized

That they can convince us to psychologically

Hang our own kind

With no pine

To save our own spine

And they can watch it the whole time

Stir the appropriated gumbo

Get heavy handed when you black pepper in that misguided bigotry

Let us internalize it in our bellies

But never add black heritage cause that would give us strength

Keep us hungry for integration while you stuff us with lies

Remind us there's always more entrées for those that pass out self hate plates for them

Gotta love sell-your-soul food with A LITTLE CAWN BREAD

Kunta put his foot in it and just like it we are lost

Black panthers who forgot the enemy, scratching each other to get to the top

We are copy paste military  soldiers born into a war of slaughtering clones before learning and appreciating our differences yet demomized for being too militant

Trained to attack anything with melanin

Pigment must assimilate or be eliminated

Death is the only way to discharge

They choose to dishonor

The beauty in darker

Complexions

And check it

They still

Shoot us for profit

Think you gonna stop it

By speaking to European standards?

By dressing in suits?

Shaving your locks?

Ignorance is all part of the massa plan

Self hating brown people are allowed to live until they change course. Intelligence is a weapon "I've got a gun."

Fear for your life

So you steer my kind to the pipeline of prison and erasure

Selling out is synonymous with success

Beat it into our heads until its engrained into our community like whip scars

Shake our self worth til ourselves are worth selling

Let identity fly off the shelves

Put us in cells

Make a franchise out of disenfranchising darker denizens

Take notes of our tendecies and shove us in the margins

Convince us to do the dirty work for you

Teach us betrayal equals survival

Blame feels like bullets

Make us point fingers at each other until it feels like gunpoint

Call it black on black crime

Shame feels like water, it washes away

Let us cleanse ourselves

You want us to Spill our own blood

I know because

The last thing you want on your hands...

And in this world

Is color