Reparations in this Nation, Come On Now You Had Better Ask Somebody Thursday March 10, 2016
Reparations in this nation
Really now reparations in this nation
Reparations really being a destination
People think that it will bring elation
Some would much rather have racial separation
Forget all about any reparations
When Coates went to Sanders to discuss reparations
For a black American nation
Sanders denied the need for any economic equation
For a people’s loss due to economic and judicial domination
Will make it better has been we’ll make right
Reparations coming your way is surely a flight
Forgive said Sanders if I sound just a bit trite
Well Clinton it seems has the black peoples steam
Getting reparations from her is simply a dream
Republicans boast but everyone knows reparations
Coming that crew is like eating burnt toast
How long has there been a need for reparations
in this nation been apparent?
Maybe if we had got it no need for all this criminal deterrent
Has it been 150 years sense you freed us
Why in the hell do you feel the need to constantly bleed us
When Wilke’s bullet splintered Lincoln’s brains in 65
Did we in America except reparations to fall?
Was it really Lincoln’s plan to pay former slaves anything at all?
No mule, no acres or fields to plow
Reparations might have afforded us our very own milk cow?
Yet America didn’t even consider handing my ancestors a sow
The mule that was promised ended up lame
The land that was promised turned up in someone else’s name
For that America is personally your most heinous shame
To turn back on promises and look to constantly duck all the blame
So 100 years after that bullet splintered that President’s brain
Still no reparations to ease our people’s pain
So you decided a course to give hope some force
After 100 years of our bodies hanging in trees
Damn even that couldn’t bring all our people to their knees
Even while bodies swung slowing in the breeze
Garvey and Malcolm sought an exit from here
They knew no way in hell reparations was near
They answer to this was quite, quite clear without reparations
Let’s simply get the hell out of here
King saw a hope with some hope
He finally thought getting some type of reparations was dope
Just as the bullet left that rifle aimed scope
Poor People’s Campaign and Reparations…America again said Nope
Leaving our people with his murder to cope
Is this why so many of them turn to real dope
For this nation told them to remember the rope
Conyers has called for 2 decades to talk
All the white members of Congress wish he’d would simply walk
Thinking of paying reparations to them is simply a lark
Hell Conyers and crew might as well take that walk in a park
Giving time and effort to this is like starving a shark
Reparations in this nation you say
Legislation preparations; hell no to reparations
Why didn’t we choose racial separation
Sure as hell not getting no reparations
For all this judicial and economic domination
Truly this is America’s real abomination
Failing even to consider paying our people reparations
So it 16 now the discussions are clear
White candidates say don’t whisper about reparations in my own ear
They know if considered the nation will collapse in all out fear
Let’s build our own land forsaken in this nation
Translation to them was getting our people a new destination
Purging this fight for providing what’s right
So we as people continue to call
Hoping that reparations comes to us all
Simply saying your sorry is no easy fix
America we as a people have seen enough of your tricks
Deception, corruption, neglecting, never correcting, imprisoning, murdering
denying, outright lying, ignoring, damn America for us this becomes boring
Reparations in this nation
Really now reparations in this nation
Reparations really being a destination
People think that it will bring elation
Some would much rather have racial separation
Forget all about any reparations
Never the cause is just reparations are really a must.
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