Blackface Lyrics

Blackface

Blackface

You're just a sheep, blackface

Yeah a disgrace, like blackface

You can't hide behind the theatrics

A caricature of the ages, quotes

A happy go lucky darky on the plantation

Or a dandified coon, too soon

How on earth did this time even exist

Thank god for the civil rights movement

Telling a black person to forget about slavery

Is like telling a Jewish person to forgive Hitler

We need that empathy, let us never forget

We all have the right to preach, whatever the subject

But white folks were slaves too, it's true

But in no way is it the same, we can't blame

Whilst white privilege gets used and abused

Do we even see the bigger picture through the view

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Gallivanting about on stage, blackface

Minstrels in the pack and act, blackface

Damn, times need to change, I don't get it

Why are people so concerned with pigment

It's just skin, shit this gets under my skin

So much in this world, yet we focus on skin

We will ever see a change, fingers crossed

Hundred years from now, will racism adjust

And just because, I am white, myself

Doesn't mean I can't also be in disgust

The past is the past, that's true enough

But everything affects today, where we are

Damn we can't go back, that's a given

But we can choose to say good riddance

Too all the neglect, pain and suffering

Have each other's backs and start to amend

Why are some so belligerent, why's it so hard to find acceptance

We are all born different, unique, that's a blessing

So why's it matter the hue of the tissue, Charmin

Why don't we all chime in and Kleenex the issue

Such brutality, separation, judgement

What would god think, would he want us to quarrel

I really hope and wish that in years to come

We find a way to overcome the situation that's current

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It's way past the due date to put right all the bad from before

Why are we still stuck in this moment, and still not advanced

We need to make this world an all lives matter, present

Not only make victims that be of a deep complexion

Let us not waste all this existence on race, such a shame

White does not equal superior, for fuck sake we are the same

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Don't be ignorant to change

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