Who told YOU I'm not Black?!

Who told YOU I’m not Black?!

Who told you I’m not black?

Let me bring you back

A time when the fields of my land

Were plowed with love

The skin of our back kissed by the sun

Not whips or straps

Have you forgotten the melanin in your skin

Runs bone deep

Mirate el negro detras de el oido

That black line you carry 

Runs down from your belly button

Down like an arrow

Signs you have chosen to elude

Brought forth the future colors of the rainbow Moreno

Mulato

Indigeno

Negro

Did you forget your name Manuel?

Oh! I forgot, you’re Manny

A-rod thru your people

Let me mix you like café con leche

Lighten them eyes boo

They cant really see you

But shit! You’re light

So we’ll claim you

Without giving a fuck that you annihilate your roots

With light and lovely

If you can afford  it

Bleach too

Except when its time to call la viejita

That use to cook for you

When you were snot nosed and naked en el sibao

At about two

Forgotten? No, that’s just you

When you started making the paper dude

And traded the tu for llu

The beauty of the land, the people

Who made you look like you do

YES! The stories of kings are true

NO! OUR ANCESTORS DID NOT come from zoo’s

It cant be hidden by your eyes of blue

Nigga it’s because of the love of black dick

That you got those too

When them Spanish peeps came

To the islands 

to cruise and abuse

Impregnating our queens in sets of two

You know how they do

that black ass was only good for interludes

In the dark

When you hit it from the back it aint black, just  phat ha!

You’ve seen it too

We cant change your color

True

But we can breed it out of you

Blend you and change you

Until there’s nothing you can do

But submit and believe

You’re one of us now

The big lips, kinky hair

And luscious bodies have now been reduced

A memory

Secret beat

You still hear it, sweet

In your bones that music never leaves

Your mother is Africa

It hears you speak

When it ends

Its where we plant our feet

It’s where we started

From where we departed

Blended by nations

Embedded throughout all of creation

No matter your station in life

Despite the strife

Its between these thighs

They came to reside

Before you try 

To cast us aside

Let me bring you back, to when you didn’t know that

Let me ask you one more time

WHO TOLD YOU I’M NOT BLACK!!