"Awaken"
An amazing spoken word piece, by Kyd Kane
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A note from the poet:"Awaken" touches on the importance of Black Lives waking up and seeing truth. Focuses on the importance of researching, learning and understanding our history outside of the missing and distorted history taught in schools. Also, it challenges us to see ourselves in a positive light rather than how we are negatively depicted and stereotyped in our everyday lives, in the media, movies, music, etc. I hope this piece lights a fire in the minds of my people and inspires them think and seek knowledge of themselves. AWAKEN!!!!
Lyrics to AWAKEN They want us to be concious to the nonsense But blind to the truth So they brainwash us with bullshit So that our past is overlooked It's time we wake up Yes, it's time we break up With their rule of law That's been designed to make Our very existence a fatal flaw So I say to you all AWAKEN We've been asleep and slept on For far too long Stripped of who were So we can't understand who we are Misguided and mislead So sadly, most of don't make it very far We don't have to be who they say, or made us believe that we are Thugs, addicts, criminals, prisoners, niggas, hoes or bitches Our people were once kings, queens Spiritual beings with riches Riches, far greater than the all mighty dollar Yet, we scream, fight and holler With our own over just that Money.. And it's funny, cuz we don't do it to gain assets We do it to buy designer fashions And help major corporations cash fat checks But, despite our own ignorance, We are not the only ones to blame They like to make it seem as if How we live and All the decisions that we make are a choice When all the While they set us up to fail Kill us, beat us, throw us in jail And turn a blind eye of course They took our people our culture, our land, our names, and our voice And replaced it with pain, shame, and struggle Using systematic tactics and brutal force Plagued our communities with hiv/aids, heroine, crack cocaine Gave our sons guns then blame us and shame us for all of those slain Most of us never stood a chance Horrible education, shitty living situations Misrepresentation, the growth of the black race Has never been an obligation to our Nation Dying to put us in prison or Send us to an early grave They've gotten rid of plantations, but most of us are still slaves Slaves to addiction, slaves to materialism, Slaves to ignorance, slaves to false religion They want us to be concious to the nonsense But blind to the truth So they brainwash us with bullshit So that our past is overlooked It's time we wake up Yes, it's time we break up With their rule of law That's been designed to make Our very existence a fatal flaw So I say to you all AWAKEN They've taken way too much From our people And we've allowed it So it's to time to infiltrate the system Remove the divide Increase the knowledge of our history So that we are able to grow, unite and conquer Please, make it make sense And stop living like the struggle of blacks in this country Is past tense Asking "Well uh, Do you think racism still exist?" What kind of FUCKING question is this? Is the sky blue? Don't continue to live their lie Find you So you'll never have to Hesitate when they ask Who are you? |