As a black man when you look at me what do you see

Do you see the over-popularized image portrayed on TV 

Thugs and dealers drugs and killers

Only waiting for that day when I too, myself will be incarcerated 

Tell me what do you see, Is that what you want me to be

Because very much so I’ve seen it all my life 

Pushing me into a category as I walk by, looks of fear as if to imply

That I am dangerous because of my skin he’s a threat to us, but look again

Look beyond your media conceptualized image look again

Because I my friend am here for the same reason to educate myself 

And give life a reason, Beyond the shadow of a doubt all men are created equal

But is this the sequel, where the mind is the judge the jury and the prosecutioner

Already incriminating me subconsciously before I’ve even had a chance to say hello

Because I don’t wear the same attire and talk as if life had no struggle oh

If it were that easy

See the color of my skin has taught me that I am an athlete first 

And society has taught me that a woman is no more than a friend with benefits 

Poison to the young black men that are so eager to ingest it

Because they know no better, poison that is the biggest mass murderer

Creating genocide in the cities that we reside, never to be conceptualized

By the minds of the blind, but what’s the remedy for poison when its already ingested

It seems that our infrastructure is so heavily infested

Speak out for a positive cause but quickly get muzzled

By what is considered cool and popular, not realizing that cool and popular

Is what got you into the predicament you were in

But  where are the real teachers not submersed in academia, but in the reality of life

And ive come to learn that experience Is the best teacher 

So I am here to learn