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Equality


My agenda is as important

As the president Barack Obama

I'm not finished there,

Go look for he other commas.

Because I'm a person

A human being

Don't tell me that I'm lame.

Because your wasteful, downcasting viewings of me

Your hasteful, roundhousing spewings on me

Can't cover up my name.

 

The world likes to step on you

When you have yet to be "important,"

People will always be suppressed.

The world does what it wants to

Until you prove that you're original

Until the right man has been impressed.

 

You see even I look at all whites and blacks and reds and yellows the same

Because to me they're all one people. Their color is their name.

 

But Obama's black,

Knoxville is White

Alamacani is Red

Jong Un's yellow stalks the night.

It's no wonder people ball up fists

Why we anger,

Why we fight.

 

This world is "equality" as said by those of fame.

And of all those that they brainwashed,

To where their country is their name.

If I am equal, truely, there's only one way one can't doubt,

Let me scream "who am i?"

And MY name you all would shout.

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