It has been six hundred years,
When a dozen of us took the ship ride
That would drive dozens of us
Into generations of servitude.
All over the globe we were tamed
Like the all powerful gorilla.
It has been just as long
Since they realized that we are strong,
The most enduring race in the world.
Thus their idiosyncratic malediction to our type,
They have tried to drive us into extinction;
Vitiation has failed for generations.
In time we have proved our mettle,
We have stood the test of time,
We have outlived the longest holocaust
We the race of sorrows in the human family.
The Japanese have been paid off for their pain
The Jews have been rewarded God
With the promised land of Canaan
With fat bank accounts from the whole world
They, the chosen tribe of Judah
They still whine at the use of just words.
Yet we take it everyday
Even from them that cry foul to the world
The worst racists of all human kind.
Antisemitism has been coined a crime
No word describes our daily bread and malediction
We the black sheep of the flock.
We carried the world on our shoulders
As it spat on our faces for centuries
We have been whipped, back slapped
But we stood firm, we rode the tide.
Here they described us in the most blatant way
"Only the heartiest of Africans could endure
The cruel middle passage to North America
Once off loaded, the surviving Africans
Were paraded atop auction stages
For inspection of their physical traits"
Thus was born eugenics, a movement to create
Monster workers of us, to till their land
And lift their loads

We survived Jim Crow, and so did we the Boers
The Ku Klux Klan, could not lynch us to extinction
The Carnegie Institute, we will beat
We will survive the AIDS war so imposed on us
Just like castration and sterilization
They failed to subdue us
Only time will tell, that we are the true tribe of Judah
We will outlive any other race
Just like we gave life to every race.
Heroes of our type have come and been silenced
We have been robbed of the best, we mourn daily
The hardest of our flock, silently softened
By the unscrupulous devil machine
Marcus Garvey, Patrice Lumumba, silenced
Malcolm X a shining beacon bullet riddled to silence
Steve Biko fearless to death
Tupac Shakur honestly brilliant, frankly rebellious
Martin Luther King a prophet of sorts
Our greatest voices turned out by quislings.
Where do we go now, how do we get from here?