Reparations Lyrics

Black folks ain't never got no reparations Stripped away your language, made you speak

Caucasian Set you free into a world without no education

Came back and took back the land that they gave you

What reparations

What's more American than free labor

Hanging from the popular tree They got your feet dangling

Ain't here to tell on you, I put a spell on you

I guess I'm mad at the world putting the blame on you

Check, our people picked cotton and then they started hip-hopping

How we don't control the music, you know what, forget about it

Come inside your neighborhood, suck the money out

They know we miseducated, so they prey on us

They never reinvest, nope, they just take from us

Never seen a black business in they neighborhood They'll come and sell you fried chicken in

your neighborhood Now damn that chicken good

Sell your girl weave, sell your kids sugar water, say it's sugar free

If we don't spend a dollar, well, they couldn't live without us

See, black folks fighting black folks all strategic

So when they come and take your neighborhood, you never see us

Black leaders stealing black votes, still strategic

That fancy education gave us mass incarceration That fancy education robbed you blind and made

You famous Focus on the family, now that's the real

Secret And go and get a passport so you can really

See it Don't group me with them and say that I'm

A POC I'm black, I'm American

My ancestors worked fields and weren't allowed to read

Our struggles ain't the same cause we got blood in these streets

Migrated to the north, we came back down south Cause black Americans never get no reparations

Now let's have this conversation

Our government was giving away millions of acres of land

in the west and the midwest Which meant that it was willing to

undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor

But not only did they give the land, they built land-grant colleges

with government money to teach them how to farm

Not only that, they provided county agents to further their expertise in farming

Not only that, they provided low interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms

Not only that, today many of these people are receiving

millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm

And they are the very people telling the black man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps

And this is what we are faced with

And this is the reality

Now when we come to Washington

In this campaign

We are coming to get our check