《Before They Called You White》歌词

歌曲： Before They Called You White

所属专辑：All The Beauty In This Whole Life

歌手： Brother Ali

时长： 03:36

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Before They Called You White - Brother Ali[00:00:00]

At what point did poor European people that used to rebel[00:00:04]

Against the ones that forced them to work land[00:00:08]

They didn't own and die with nothing of their own[00:00:11]

What was it that turned their hearts[00:00:16]

So that they start to identify with power[00:00:17]

Even though they're powerless[00:00:19]

Identify with wealth even though they're broke[00:00:20]

It's the invention of whiteness[00:00:24]

They call you white by white standards[00:00:27]

Damn what they're talking 'bout human first[00:00:29]

Stand and curse the dirty hand that first crafted the plan[00:00:31]

Spread it through the land and shattered the damn earth[00:00:35]

This is sickest system that ever existed[00:00:37]

Since this earth's beginning commenced it's twisting[00:00:40]

How you convince man with red blood to bleed[00:00:43]

Completely devalue what a human being means[00:00:46]

Nobody called themselves white several centuries ago[00:00:49]

They were living off the land with the trees[00:00:53]

They were Dutch they were Irish they were German[00:00:55]

They were Greek with culture families tradition and beliefs[00:00:57]

And rich blood suckers saw new soil to seize[00:01:01]

And they ain't 'bout to get their hands dirty cracker please[00:01:04]

Swindled you to trade in your identity[00:01:07]

Showed you pie in the sky and promised you a piece[00:01:09]

With symbolic image in the scripture that you're reading[00:01:13]

White holy angels and black evil demons[00:01:16]

You were so starving that you started to believe it[00:01:19]

Now you'll die colonizing for somebody else's greed[00:01:21]

Don't you see the overseers are still in the field[00:01:24]

Every breath a warden breathe is still in the jail[00:01:27]

You will never own that farm or the prison for real[00:01:30]

Terrified of the time when your victims rebel[00:01:33]

Listen you don't fear them you fear the blood on your hand[00:01:36]

All the ugly you done to that man[00:01:39]

That woman that child that land[00:01:41]

That sea that sky that they'd look you in the eye[00:01:43]

And demand that you tell them why[00:01:46]

All them years whipping and lying and killing[00:01:48]

Generations of poison and bombing and drilling[00:01:50]

All designed to turn the hearts of your children to stone[00:01:53]

Got post traumatic slave master syndrome[00:01:56]

How the hell are y'all going to heal be made whole[00:02:00]

You identifying with the people in control[00:02:02]

You can't throw a human in the bottom of a boat[00:02:05]

Unless somebody got a damn chain around your soul[00:02:08]

In that middle passage asking who got stole[00:02:11]

A hot auction block where your blood ran cold[00:02:14]

Every day a cop let them shots explode[00:02:17]

You're gon' have to find a way to regain your soul[00:02:20]

I said the eye can't see itself[00:02:23]

It can't sit back critique itself and peep itself[00:02:25]

It needs help[00:02:28]

Take the sword for example[00:02:29]

No matter how hard it can't carve its own handle[00:02:31]

I said the eye can't see itself[00:02:34]

It can't sit back critique itself and peep itself[00:02:37]

It needs help[00:02:40]

Take the sword for example[00:02:41]

No matter how hard it can't carve its own handle[00:02:43]

The inner city of our cities is like another country[00:02:48]

The rules are different[00:02:51]

It's almost like you need a passport there[00:02:52]

The police treat people differently[00:02:54]

When I lived out in the suburbs[00:02:56]

If my car broke down on the highway[00:02:58]

And a state trooper pulled up behind me[00:03:00]

I wouldn't have been scared[00:03:02]

I'd have been glad[00:03:03]

But young man after young man[00:03:04]

After young man had been beaten by the police[00:03:06]

And the only way you know[00:03:09]

You've got to be with the people[00:03:11]

And we live separated[00:03:12]

We go in air conditioned cars[00:03:14]

And we stick on your interstates[00:03:15]

And hang out with people just like us[00:03:17]

Well by god's grace[00:03:19]

I was brought into this[00:03:20]

And seeing how race plays a part[00:03:23]

And how poverty plays a part[00:03:25]

And my job is to go out to the American people[00:03:27]