Andre’ Saunders

For years police and private citizens

have killed our sons for fun

and if one of our kids runs from them

They have a reason to kill our son

So what should we teach our children

when we send them out to play

Do we warn them that policeman

might kill them some day?

White folk might say I’m crazy

They say the police are there to protect

But the truth is, in our community

They can often cause our death

So tell me how am I to deal with you

‘Cause Jesus taught love is better than might

To do unto me as you would yourself

Don’t you know is the only thing that’s right?

LAMENT TO AMERICA

How can you White folk

call us savage?

When you took African lands

and African women you ravaged.

And, what kind of progress

has your technology made

When Earth itself

now has to be saved

When will you White folk learn

what my forefathers knew?

That God made this world, to be shared

That He did not make it…just for you

FOLLOW THE MONEY

When people don’t care

how they make money,

they tell you lies to keep you in place

They tell you lies that don’t make sense,

like there’s more than one human race

The reasons they use to justify their lies,

when you know the facts, is really funny

Cause in American, to know the truth,

all you do, is follow the money

You see, our difference is in our culture,

Compare our blood and we’re both the same

So, if this is true my brother,

Why then the racism game?

Defined by your color

How can you be respected women,

respected men?

Especially if you define your worth

By someone else’s skin?

You now call yourself Black

In your defiance, you show your pride

But clearly when you do this

You’ve forgotten why your Great, Great

Great Grandfather died

“From now on Nigga your name is Tom.”

Old Massa said

But your Great, Great, Great Grandfather,

he just shook his head

He thought, I am Wassau,

this is the name I bear

I’m enslaved in a foreign land,

but I’ll keep my name I swear

Yea, Old Massa did everything to make him

change his name

“Nigga, if you don’t do what I say,

I’ll cause you incredible pain”

All the fingers of his right hand and a

foot they did take

And now you willingly call yourself black,

Because you’ve forgotten the pain that made

his body shake

Know your forefathers did not accept slavery

Because they were weak, cowardly, or dumb

They had to accept the fact that

Whatever they did affected everyone

Our forefathers were from different parts

of Africa

We are their descendants, we are the same

So if you need to call yourself something

Call yourself African, that’s your rightful name

Your Great, Great, Great Grandfather died

Because the Overseer heard him tell someone

That he would never accept being

called  a Nigga

And that Africa was where he was from

No, you are not BLACK, my Brother

And you are only American,

BECAUSE of slavery’s curse

You see, all your forefathers were proud

Africans, my Brother

But you’ve lost this history,

and that’s why your slavery’s worse

Think of this,

The only people that

Define themselves by color is YOU

The only people that

Define themselves by religion is the JEW

I know you’ve been called slave,

Nigga, colored

And now you think that being called

BLACK is so grand

But your Great, Great,

Great Grandfather died

because, my Brother

MAKING HIM INTO SOMETHING ELSE

WAS PART OF OLD MASSA’S PLAN