"Man this history don't acknowledge us,
We was scholars long before colleges."
This song is soooo deep, the first time I heard it I felt a very deep sorrow. It's amazing that going through school at an majority "black" school in elementary I learned so much about European history but barely breezed over the history of Africa, or Egypt.
"But still we choose to ignore,
The obvious."
We choose to ignore we come from great people, that they were kings and queens, making us a sort of royalty, Still I go outside and I see African Americans on the corners selling themselves cheap. staying at home not becoming anything, we have so much potential as a People. It's not just other races that are pushing the divide between black and white, Somehow Somewhere we started doing the same. We are all one people, human, yet we choose to ignore it...
We are the slave and the master,
What you looking for?
You the question and the answer.
We were freed by the government, only to imprison ourselves. Did we become so comfortable with being inferior that when given the chance, the control to change it, we instead forced ourselves to assume the role of inferior?
The question is who are we? What is an African American, What is being black. It was a title of inferiority. Yet the fact is now we have the power to change the answer. Lets make it something proud. The question is "Who are you?" And the answer is what we make it.
The first chorus in this completely describes the neighborhood I grew up in. Where shoes hung from telephone poles and the fastest way to cool off was a Hydrant party.
Which of these facts will we carry?
Ancestry of slaves, or Descendant of Kings
All I'm saying is that though it has been outlawed, from my viewpoint, not much changed and It's because of us now, Take some responsibility and lets change the world.
"Man this history don't acknowledge us, We was scholars long before colleges."
This song is soooo deep, the first time I heard it I felt a very deep sorrow. It's amazing that going through school at an majority "black" school in elementary I learned so much about European history but barely breezed over the history of Africa, or Egypt.
"But still we choose to ignore, The obvious."
We choose to ignore we come from great people, that they were kings and queens, making us a sort of royalty, Still I go outside and I see African Americans on the corners selling themselves cheap. staying at home not becoming anything, we have so much potential as a People. It's not just other races that are pushing the divide between black and white, Somehow Somewhere we started doing the same. We are all one people, human, yet we choose to ignore it...
We are the slave and the master, What you looking for? You the question and the answer.
We were freed by the government, only to imprison ourselves. Did we become so comfortable with being inferior that when given the chance, the control to change it, we instead forced ourselves to assume the role of inferior?
The question is who are we? What is an African American, What is being black. It was a title of inferiority. Yet the fact is now we have the power to change the answer. Lets make it something proud. The question is "Who are you?" And the answer is what we make it.
The first chorus in this completely describes the neighborhood I grew up in. Where shoes hung from telephone poles and the fastest way to cool off was a Hydrant party.
Which of these facts will we carry? Ancestry of slaves, or Descendant of Kings
All I'm saying is that though it has been outlawed, from my viewpoint, not much changed and It's because of us now, Take some responsibility and lets change the world.