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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 of existence as we
know it
Get ready
because all of the signs that it's
here
Is showing
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