Frederick Douglass Said it ft. Speech & 1 Love Lyrics

Yeah

The biggest deception is that people do not care

Be aware we are here

The despair that you fear

We're prepared to prepare you

We're here just to share with you

The traps that are ensnaring you

The unknowns that's scaring you

Our purpose is not surface

It is deep and it is urgent

We can see that you are hurting

Try to cut through like a surgeon

But our scalpel is not sharp enough

Our lasso is not far enough

We wrestle with devils the ones out and the ones inside of us

Scarring us

Each gun shot that rings out is jarring us

We still remember the days white people feathered and tarring us

Days when even the laws said it's just them and not an us

Since then we've been on the backs of buses when there's not a bus

Frustrations will even make a Christian man learn how to cuss

Poverty in our spirits so like squirrels we just gotta nut

Men become like wedgies

Steady going in and out of butts

Women become possessed with all the demons coming from out of us

And it's real

The battles never been more realer

We've been partying and dancing so long

But the war's still going on

The war's still going on

War's still going on uh huh

Pick up your sword now

Frederick Douglass Said it

Its easier to build

Strong children

Than it is to repair

Broken men

The mountains so high we wonder where to begin

The White man's happiness cannot be won

By the Black man's misery cause all us are one

I thought we done learned this from past things that's done

African is where every race comes from

There's a race to be run

Africa's my origin but that home I've never known

Only what I've read myself

Only what I'm told and shown

I guess that's why my mind roam lately I've been so sedated

Guess that's how I cope with my history being annihilated

This is what I bring to the team

Passion, purp and leadership

Every forty-eight hours we snitch when we should plead the fifth

See that white girl take a sniff

See that white horse, need a lift

Cocaine never been my thang

But that Mary Jane, we can burn a spliff

When I see the law I turn and dip

This ish is like a habit now

I'm mashin out

We don't need no racist cop to pat us down

No Crip or blood just camouflage

My daddy was in Vietnam

Some were taught to kill themselves

I was trained for my race to run

Frederick Douglass Said it

It's easier to build

Strong children

Than it is

To repair

Broken men

The mountains so high we wonder where to begin

The White man's happiness cannot be won

By the Black man's misery cause all us are one

I thought we done learned this from past things that's done

African is where every race comes from

There's a race to be run