I hear it was the whistling towards a white woman,
that got you killed, face beaten in like a castrated mummy.
They stopped you because they did not want to take the blame.
Oh! how they killed you because they hated themselves,
used a lie to send you to your grave in the most horrible way.
Blood stains the Coliseum doors.
Now history repeats, everyone getting killed like Till.
Dead Black bodies dropping down on the streets.
Shout all of their names 3 times! They were innocent Black people, but 5-0 thought otherwise.
Police took away precious black lives of men, women, and children.
I know I’m guilty of it too, but not like them.
Stop the killing! Stop the racism! Freeze!
Black people are no longer enslaved,
We no longer wear those chains just to be painted gold.
Now once upon a time not too long ago,
A ***** like myself had to strong arm a ***.
Hold your golden-black crown high
Black woman
Black woman
What do you see when you look in the mirror?
Do you see the strength
and heart of the warrior Afrekete?
Is your head held up high,
for a crown to rest?
And be dubbed black queen,
mother of life, educator of black intelligence
Do you see your dark skin as it dances
and befriends the night,
kisses the sun and
absorbs black power day in and day out?
Do you see those wide hips, big bust,
big **** and big lips?
Never will you say that those precious gifts
from descendant Saartjie Baartman are a curse.
Black woman
Black woman
what do you see when you look at you
Lookup!
Lookup I say.
See that melanin on fleek,
that no one would dare to compete with.
Black woman do you see us?
Ancestors who stand before you,
behind you and beside you.
Give birth to a Black nation
Do you see that within the mirror?
The blood and shadows of a warrior queen.
Black Lives Matter, I cried
Pull up your pants
They would say
And WE won’t shoot
Black men in 1920’s suits
Left dead or in jail
Black mothers cried, I cried
M.L.K has arisen and died