REGIME CHANGE (2024) By Kevin ”Rashid” Johnson

Invade and topple governments you dislike
-regime change
But you’d never accept
the same done to you
-how strange

Then you ask
Why do they hate us?
well…you just bombed their lands
Killed their kids
razed their towns
but you don’t understand?

Do you know what imperialism is?
white supremacy
thinking you’re better
Entitled to dominate others
to determine whether

They should live or die
how they should live their lives
While you broadcast lies
slaughter their
kids and wives

Skin color is still the litmus test
for who you think is best
Now instead of saying ”us white folks”
you just say ”the West”

Or ”the civilized world”
who the fuck gave you the right
To police the entire planet
decide other’s quality of life

A bully
world domination
through nuclear blackmail
While the lives of Black males
are spent in jail cells

Who the hell can tell
what’s real from what’s
pretend
We BEEN trying to mend
our communities
since way back when

You had must like cattle
plantation slaves
On land stolen from millions
of Natives you put in graves

Then segregated us
while lying to the world
Claimed this was a melting pot
where every little boy and girl

Could live equal in spite of color
yet another lie
Which is the reason why
Malcolm X had to die

He showed the wool you was pulling
over the whole world’s eyes
And refused to compromise
in exposing your lies

Just like today
ain’t shit changed
You hold a quarter of the world’s entire
prison population
-ain’t that strange

For a place that trumpets
Freedom
Democracy
And all the tripe
Grandiose lies
smoke and mirrors hypocrisy
industry hype

But to return to the matter
of the world’s
basic rights
Especially those
whose skin ain’t white

All you gotta do
is claim their rulers ain’t right
and pick opponents too weak to fight
A regime you can overthrow
overnight

But in evey case
your motives are revealed
It’s their resources you want to steal
for which you’re willing to kill

But overthrowing their governments
won’t secure your hold
On their lands
this demands population control

And this is where
your schemes fall flat
The peoples of the lands you invade
ain’t going for that

So you end up with a resistance
on your hands
Opposition to your imperialist position
from every child woman and man

To protect what’s theirs
they take up the gun
The end result in every case
you turn tail and run

But you boast the world’s greatest military
now that really seems strange
Can’t defend the puppets you put in power
what’s the point of regime change

You did it in Vietnam Haiti Somalia
Afghanistan Iraq
Why not places like Cuba and North Korea?
cuz they can fight back

But keeping puppets at the helm
that’s your tool
Of robbing and exploiting other peoples
-neocolonial rule

So how do we create a peaceful word?
you don’t care nor have a clue
Well I do
cuz
Ameirka
The regime that needs changing is you