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Struggle for Freedom
Hopeless tears reign marks of struggle
followed by endless pain
The stigma "nigga" forever implanted in my DNA
From black face and sambo to mammy and sapphire
some still view us just the same
After years of struggle and progress
Not a lot has changed
They assume stupidity just by the tint of my face
and because it's brown, I'm uneducated
a fool, a mistake
I'm the angry black woman that'll
roll my neck and put my fingers in your face
Or he's the one with the bad attitude
and a gun to shoot up the place
Or the welfare queen - all she do is get high
Oh and he's the one that fits the description of that black guy
Still...Forever struggling for respect with no ideas
about what it's really like not to be automatically tagged "nigger/a"
So I stopped expecting miracles of blacking out racism
and continue the fight for freedom
Freedom from labels and stereotypes
Freedom from dumb ass black people who keep those stereotypes alive
Freedom from holds like hate and negative teachings and
Freedom from ourselves because some of us have stopped reaching
Some of us have given up the fight to be taken seriously
We've disgustingly lost our pride and our unity
We've decided to become enchanted with the stigma "nigga/er"
so it's embedded in our DNA
Attached to more than just my skin
It's my soul that aches
The struggle for freedom will never end
Racism will never end
Until the end
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