(**) You would never know If you could ever be If you never try You would never
see Stayed in Africa We ain't never leave So there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn't he
See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything
and we ain't get exploited White man ain't feared so he did not destroy it
We ain't work for free, see they had to employ it Built it up together so we equally
appointed First 400 years, see we actually enjoyed it Constitution written by the
W.E.B. Du Bois Were no reconstructions, Civil War got avoided Little black Sambo
grows up to be a lawyer Extra extra on the news stands Black woman voted head
of Ku Klux Klan Malcolm Little dies as a old man Martin Luther King read the eulogy
for him Followed by Bill O'Reilly who read from the Quran President Bush sends condolences from Iran Where FOX News reports live
That Ahmadinejad wins Mandela peace prize
(**)
Uh, and it ain't no projects Keepin it real is not an understood concept
Yea, complexion's not a contest Cause racism has no context
Hip hop ain't got a section called conscious Everybody rappin' like crack never
happened crips never occurred no Bloods to attack them Matter of fact no hood
to attack in Somalia is a great place to relax in Fred Astaire was the first to do
a backspin The Rat Pack was cool group of black men That inspired five white guys
called The Jacksons Eminem fitted in but then again he inspired a black rapper
tryin to mimic him And that's what really rose up out of Michigan, the sign of
white rapper by the name of 50 Cent, ha!
(**)
and I know it's just a fantasy I cordially invite you to ask why can't it be?
Now we can do nothing bout the past But we can do something about the future
that we have We can make fast or we can make it last Every woman Queenin' and
every man a Kingin' When those color lines come we can't see between
We just close our eyes 'til it's all black every-THING!
(**)
The song takes on an alternative version of the past, with Fiasco imagining a history devoid of racism and black people employed as paid workers rather slaves. "I just started thinking, 'What if things had gotten off on a totally different foot?,'" explained the rapper in publicity materials. "What if they just came over to Africa and said, 'We want you guys to work for us.'
Exposing Black racism
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