Today's Generation
You know the white man
Is lookin' at you
Laughin' at you
Like you're a clown?
Black and African American men
Callin' each other "nigga" and "negroe"
Go back in history
Look at your ancestors tears
And the disappointment they have fo'
They kin.
Wake up!
That's what the white owners used to say
To put them down!
Then y'all got the baggy jeans
Fallin' off ya behinds
But go ahead and do it
It just represents a possibility for you
JAILTIME
But oh, no!
I'm not finished yet.
The ladies--
I got something for you too.
Goin' around callin' other girls bitches
When all they did was what?
Take ya man
Or been snitches?
Last time I checked we weren't any female dogs
But we've become so sneaky or "clever"
Tellin' business--droppin' dirty bombs
We're just as disgusting as hogs
But I'm not gon' lie
I've called a man a "nigga"
A girl, a "bitch"
But we're all so used to saying it
We've all become addicts
We may try to stop
But the words just pop
Out of our mouths, onto our lips
And into the world
Full of contradictions
And hypocrites
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