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Words in Black and White


They wanted to call us colored But what did colored mean To a population with crops dying Radiation spewing across the sky Changes from green to dead And blue to hidden Just as society aimed to eliminate the fundamentals of the racial rainbow So did the atmosphere sense the affects as well Racial slurs crowded around in the drums of ears N dash dash this N bleep bleep that They call us colored But their words were black and white
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