What is slavery?
Is it limited to a certain place and time?
Names replaced and value decreased to a dime
Is slavery solely defined for those ripped from their families?
Stripped from their culture and countries?
For those that were treated less than humane
Only the most resilient would remain
To those who have been beaten and brutalized
Those that the white man capitalized
For those forced to learn a new language
Forced to forget their culture and heritage?
Young girls and women forced to succumb to their owners desires
Being sold over and over to the highest buyers
Men beaten bloody and hung
Spread fear in the rest old and young
A continuous raping of relationships and identity
Raping of dignity and worth a nonentity
Children and churches burned
Nothing for tHEm could be earned
Now we have a group of poets, writers, and activists
Challenging mainstream a group of nonconformists
Powerful writers and orators
Independent thinkers and passionate educators
A group that detest slavery and everything is stood for
Who demand the truth and determined to get more
Who refer to their females counterparts as Queen
And he her King a mutual respect between
I am saying all of this to lay a foundation
We have now ongoing levels of degradation
Present day slavery
Stealing our children, men, and women, thievery
Stripping their identity for a price
And what they give and receive will never suffice
No no need to reach back to Jamestown Virginia
We can start with our children and the pedophilia
How they are made slaves to perversion and secrets
Forgive me this is just how my brain interprets
A culture that breeds sex sells
1619 or 2015 it enslaves compels
Young boys to find status in their conquers
Culture not cultivating free thinkers
Enslaved to sex and the streets
Making rhymes about dope and money lame beats
Talents and gifts reduced to crime and pulling triggers
No no need to reach back
Look at our boys and young men you can see the lack
We have a world where sex sells
For many women survival and money compels
Others have bought into the slave mind
Professing their good don’t knock my grind
As they allow themselves to be misused
Many just reliving their childhood being abused
Spreading their legs for money
The people cheer “Shake that ass do it honey!”
Slavery has not ended I am telling you!
It has only evolved…it’s the acceptable thing to do
We prepare our girls for their sexualized future
TV, Media, lack of nurture
And if their beauty isn’t the current trend
We’ve got surgeries and waste trimmers to bend
In just the right places, lashes, and extensions
Pills and lifts to get the right dimensions
Slavery isn’t limited to history
Our identities continue to be a mystery
Selling ourselves into slavery continuously
Its influence affecting each generation continually
Slavery has never ended it has evolved
We need to get in the Know… get involved
Is it limited to a certain place and time?
Names replaced and value decreased to a dime
Is slavery solely defined for those ripped from their families?
Stripped from their culture and countries?
For those that were treated less than humane
Only the most resilient would remain
To those who have been beaten and brutalized
Those that the white man capitalized
For those forced to learn a new language
Forced to forget their culture and heritage?
Young girls and women forced to succumb to their owners desires
Being sold over and over to the highest buyers
Men beaten bloody and hung
Spread fear in the rest old and young
A continuous raping of relationships and identity
Raping of dignity and worth a nonentity
Children and churches burned
Nothing for tHEm could be earned
Now we have a group of poets, writers, and activists
Challenging mainstream a group of nonconformists
Powerful writers and orators
Independent thinkers and passionate educators
A group that detest slavery and everything is stood for
Who demand the truth and determined to get more
Who refer to their females counterparts as Queen
And he her King a mutual respect between
I am saying all of this to lay a foundation
We have now ongoing levels of degradation
Present day slavery
Stealing our children, men, and women, thievery
Stripping their identity for a price
And what they give and receive will never suffice
No no need to reach back to Jamestown Virginia
We can start with our children and the pedophilia
How they are made slaves to perversion and secrets
Forgive me this is just how my brain interprets
A culture that breeds sex sells
1619 or 2015 it enslaves compels
Young boys to find status in their conquers
Culture not cultivating free thinkers
Enslaved to sex and the streets
Making rhymes about dope and money lame beats
Talents and gifts reduced to crime and pulling triggers
No no need to reach back
Look at our boys and young men you can see the lack
We have a world where sex sells
For many women survival and money compels
Others have bought into the slave mind
Professing their good don’t knock my grind
As they allow themselves to be misused
Many just reliving their childhood being abused
Spreading their legs for money
The people cheer “Shake that ass do it honey!”
Slavery has not ended I am telling you!
It has only evolved…it’s the acceptable thing to do
We prepare our girls for their sexualized future
TV, Media, lack of nurture
And if their beauty isn’t the current trend
We’ve got surgeries and waste trimmers to bend
In just the right places, lashes, and extensions
Pills and lifts to get the right dimensions
Slavery isn’t limited to history
Our identities continue to be a mystery
Selling ourselves into slavery continuously
Its influence affecting each generation continually
Slavery has never ended it has evolved
We need to get in the Know… get involved