Racism it's everywhereWe try to avoid itTo hide it To fight it To kill itBut the truth of the matter is,We can'tIt takes a team effort not oneAnd when I say one I don't mean personI mean raceRace,Racist,Racism, Discrimination,Hate crime,Civil RightsIt's all naming one problemSupremacy of one raceI'm talking racism There's a lot of racism in the world, but America ?Tops it's all I'm talking Booker.T.Washington type of racistI'm talking Marcus Gravey type of racistI'm talking Jim Crow Laws type of racistI'm talking black codes type of racistI'm talking W.E.B Dubois type of racist I'm talking Ida.B Wells Barnett type of racist Do you need more? Do I need to continue ? I think I do  I'm talking Secret Societies type of racistI'm talking K K K type of racist I'm talking Plessy vs Ferguson type of racistI'm talking Poll Taxes type of racistI'm talking Brown vs Education type of racistI'm talking Literacy Test type of racist  This is the world we are living in It's sad because it's still happening And we're doing it to ourselvesWe walk around calling each other niggas But get upset when the white man does it We're racist within our own race Walk around saying Team Darkskin vs Team LightskinWhat ? If you rep Team Darkskin your Team field slave And if you rep Team Lightskin then your team house slaveIt's still racism! Racist against your own race  I'm talking Dr. Martin Luther King type of racistI'm talking "I had a dream" type racistI'm talking "A man can't ride your back unless you bend over" of  type racistI'm talking "peaceful sit ins" and "passive resistance" type of racist  Yet we fail to understand that if we don't teach the future generation to persevere Then we have failed as a race The Oppressor will never stop oppressing the oppressed unless the oppressed have a voice  It's clear to the human eyes The different sizeOf the liesThe lies being told to the youthLies are nothing but flawed words and stubborn soundsBy telling a lie you have to tell twenty more to cover up that one lieSo why not tell the truth ? It's apart of the food chain We cannot take ourselves out of the food chain called lifeEven in a kettle water screams when it's being boiled It's race istNot a race is A generation don't know what a race is to be race ist To kill racism ? That's what the race isIt's inside, hiding between the creases When we bleed , we bleed redSame organs Same make All human All knowledge To assume is to presumeTo presume is to thinkTo think is to acknowledge To acknowledge is to knowTo know is to gain wisdom WisdomOne thing that would remain the sameAnd cannot be taken awayYou can take everything My pride , my sight, my arm, leg, my clothes, my sensesBut you cannot take my knowledge  Knowledge is what feeds the generationThe generation is what feed the futureHarriet Tubman I wish I knew herBut hey, we make what we want of ourselves But there would always be Racism in America