Drowning in a sea of their hate

Expectations No rest No time to breathe A weight on your chest Nothing less than excellence Even that's not enough A world that tells black people That even if you follow the rules You are still not good enough Because as long as your black They will always have the last laugh In a world that preaches equality It sure is a hypocrite From young we are taught that life is a test That no matter how hard we work We will always be seen as less Even with perfect scores we still come last A crooked system used to keep us at the bottom A crooked system used to make sure our life is a struggle A box with no key deprived of freedom Locked in with chains so we can't outshine them Doing everything in their power To watch us sink In an ocean that steals our breath Drowning in a watery abyss A constant fight to stay afloat Whilst they just stare at us A fight that isn't fair The water keeps us suppressed So everytime we open our mouth The water sinks our words Just like everytime we try to speak We are labelled dramatic All this happening whilst the weight of their hate Slowly drowns us to death In a world that claims progression The education system sets us back Policing black children Whilst holding us back So all the white kids can succeed Then tell us we will never amount to anything That all we are good for is a prison sentence Drilling inferiority straight into our chest To make sure discrimination is the only education we will get The only lesson received is how racism will never end The syllabus being slurs and all the different ways we are hated Buy something they seem to forget Is we have legacies of strength We are stronger than the hate that you threat You push us down and yet we continously get up We are made of tungsten the strongest element You think you can break us Your hate will break instead You try to steal our breath But our oxygen tank is unlimited We are here for the long run You'll just have to get used to it We are here to stay And we will never let you forget