Forget History

These kids out here don’t know their history

Forget about those who struggled for their freedom

Rapping about things and they don’t know the reason

Talking about you don’t care about history

Do you remember the time when our people wore potato sacks?

Now you feel unworthy if your belt and shoes don’t match?

Could they be standing there if  the Harriet Tubmans hadn’t paved the way?

Risking life and limbs to free our people

Just 50 years ago we were not created equal

I listen to this idiocy about not caring about history

I scratch my head and wonder at the mystery of

Forgetting the past and the reason they can rap in that microphone and diss history’s ass

Scratching my head.

These kids out here say they don’t want to read

In between the lines is where we read  to find the conspiracy worked

Of how they kept black people subservient for decades and for centuries

How can you say the man has kept us down when you haven’t read how he did?

That attitude of complacency and ignorance well I can tell you that’s about it!

Not knowing and growing and thinking for ourselves. 

Puppets on a string pulled by the master. 

Knowledge was and is the power when we learned tradition changed during the hours

When one black man learned better and he taught another better too.

Before you say you don’t care about history

Think about what you saying are you talking nonsense or are you using your brain?

And moving forward to making the struggles  and the dreams of  Martin Luther King worth it