Hold on to your views, small men
Shrink yourselves from your lack of culture
The lack of ability to see through the eyes of another man
Through the eyes of another color.
Do not insult me by telling me how I should feel
Can´t be tattooed without being thought a gang member
Cant grow a mustache without being called dirty
Cant egg a car without being charged with organized crime
Seventeen of age and crying in jail I was.
It doesn't matter on which side of the bars you´re at
The fear is always there
Tested and approved by the fear of a pale society
Our fear seems individual
While theirs is collected.
Tabula Rasa? nah, man, not for my raza
Meet the pale eyes and there is nothing but doubt
Does he hate me?
Is he disgusted?
Is he afraid?
Their fear, a product of hatred, the creation of segregation
Because of the color of my skin?
Does he support the ignorance of the man with the house of his color?
Is he ignorant himself?
Do you want to hate me?
To fear me?
I am nothing but the illusion of your mind
Therefore I will walk with anger in my heart
Because you choose not to accept me
Why waste my words when you see nothing in me but the reflection of your views?
It is wrong to assume, trust me, I know
I also know if I miss a word I dont Know the language
If I mispronounce one I must be uneducated.
Dont tell me how I should feel.
You may share the names of our ancestors
And yet you know nothing of growing up among dead bodies, bullets, and curfews
Nothing of growing up in the middle of a drug war
People dying to buy drugs, to sell drugs
Monuments of decapitated men with genitalia in their mouths
Guns in my face demanding bribes, demanding fear.
And, yeah I fucking left that.
I didn't choose to be born on your precious fucking soil
Trust me, id rather be living and dying among my brothers
When you treat me the way you do.
Dont tell me how I should feel.
You do not share the color of my skin, the words, or the culture
I've seen life, I've seen death, and I've seen you
Your soul is as your skin
colorless, maybe green, rotting from the fucking arrogance
from the fucking ignorance of your fucking views.
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