"Democracy Denied"

“Democracy Denied”

Memories of a man
Beaten on the ground
The white man so mighty
Muttering with tempers high
You bloody nigger a slave to die.

The cotton picker where to hide
A baby of color mixed from semen
The Governor dressed in white and tie
Boasting his mansion built bleeding there
The foreman’s delight to shag a maid tonight,

So frightened with eyes seeing her Africa
God ordained the home to die in peace
My continent far away from the whites
Your bastard America a demons nest
To hunt and burn your Indians dying -

Buried the buffalo a dream of home
Their ancestors beating a message
Clouded Democracy a stolen heritage
Hanging from the tree swinging choking
A white man's version of our transgressions -

O racial segregation where are our rights
Mixing with whites as colored citizens
Then denied by the color of our skin
Sweeping streets beaten and blue
Daring to drink from a fountain.

Where to now and hide from view
Black and brown a bastard color
White our masters the bastards
Blood of red not only for whites
God ordained in the beginning.

If you have a heartless heart
To hate the color of another
You cannot buy your soul
Burning away with a devil
White colored or black.