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Who taught us<\/p>\n
To reject love for our daughters<\/p>\n
Our sisters<\/p>\n
And mothers?<\/p>\n
Yeah brothers<\/p>\n
Done lost they minds<\/p>\n
Remember the time<\/p>\n
When we was Black and proud<\/p>\n
Now we just Black and loud<\/p>\n
Rapping about nothing<\/p>\n
Pretending to be tough and<\/p>\n
Internalizing self hate<\/p>\n
Accepted self inflicted genocide as our fate<\/p>\n
How much shit have we taken?<\/p>\n
Reduced to booty shakin’<\/p>\n
The solution?<\/p>\n
Bring our Comrade sistas back forward…<\/p>\n
For revolution!<\/p>\n
White supremacist beauty standards<\/p>\n
Got Black self esteem damaged<\/p>\n
Baby girls’ hair fried<\/p>\n
Relaxed and dyed<\/p>\n
It’s all the rage<\/p>\n
Till they bald in middle age<\/p>\n
Taught to be ashamed of their texture<\/p>\n
Wanna look like anyone except a<\/p>\n
Natural born sista<\/p>\n
They gone mad with the<\/p>\n
Weaves, wigs and wraps<\/p>\n
Burned scalps<\/p>\n
Kathleen Cleaver once spoke<\/p>\n
It won’t a joke<\/p>\n
On the way<\/p>\n
Back in the day<\/p>\n
Sistas wore their natural hair<\/p>\n
So white folks styled theirs<\/p>\n
Just like fros<\/p>\n
On TV in movies onstage at rock shows<\/p>\n
We’ve reversed course from back then<\/p>\n
Inferiority complexes done set back in<\/p>\n
Now we waste billions to wear<\/p>\n
Poor Asian women’s hair<\/p>\n
To ape the Kardashian part-down-the-middle hairstyle<\/p>\n
Meanwhile<\/p>\n
Kim carved her body to look like a Black woman chile<\/p>\n
Please bring our Comrade sistas back forward!<\/p>\n
Generation and gender gaps<\/p>\n
Our young males catching caps<\/p>\n
Overflowing jails and prisons cells<\/p>\n
Modern plantations<\/p>\n
Not just for free labor<\/p>\n
But aimed at<\/p>\n
Our extermination<\/p>\n
Where we can’t procreate<\/p>\n
To decrease our birth rate<\/p>\n
And we still can’t relate<\/p>\n
Refusing to see the obvious<\/p>\n
Us played against us<\/p>\n
Willie Lynch was a myth<\/p>\n
But the method is real how we rift<\/p>\n
Day in day out<\/p>\n
Clout is all we care about<\/p>\n
Reduced to obsessions<\/p>\n
Over appearances and possessions<\/p>\n
Toys and tokens<\/p>\n
And pathological need of ego stroking<\/p>\n
We lost our communities<\/p>\n
We’re lost without unity<\/p>\n
We gotta bring our Comrade sistas back forward!<\/p>\n
What happened to<\/p>\n
All power to the people?<\/p>\n
Yeah people we need to<\/p>\n
Return to the source<\/p>\n
Our revolutionary discourse<\/p>\n
Few knew of course<\/p>\n
The Black Panther Party<\/p>\n
Was a woman-led force<\/p>\n
For freedom<\/p>\n
To serve the people and feed them<\/p>\n
An entire organization of comrade sistas<\/p>\n
Even the misters<\/p>\n
Admitted they was bad!<\/p>\n
Pigs declared them the greatest domestic threat<\/p>\n
Attacked them with everything they had<\/p>\n
Now we not free<\/p>\n
Just numb<\/p>\n
Feeling free to be dumb<\/p>\n
How far have we come?<\/p>\n
Two steps forward three back<\/p>\n
Ashamed to be Black<\/p>\n
We need comrades<\/p>\n
Not queens<\/p>\n
It seems<\/p>\n
We forget<\/p>\n
Monarchs were enslavers<\/p>\n
Not saviors<\/p>\n
Even in Kemet<\/p>\n
We need our Comrade sistas brought back<\/p>\n
FORWARD!<\/p>\n
Integrate the system?<\/p>\n
Become CEOs and pig politicians?<\/p>\n
The same types<\/p>\n
Of parasites<\/p>\n
That made us slaves<\/p>\n
Today they pushing us into prisons and early graves<\/p>\n
It’s just like Apartheid<\/p>\n
White supremacy trains<\/p>\n
Black pigs to shoot is down at the barricades<\/p>\n
Dark faces token Obamas<\/p>\n
In high places to woo baby mamas<\/p>\n
Pimping our losses Ben Crumps<\/p>\n
Settling lawsuits to protect killer cops and get rich<\/p>\n
Black versions of Donald Trump<\/p>\n
Political bait and switch<\/p>\n
Snitches like Al Sharpton telling civil rights lies<\/p>\n
And democratic coalitions devised<\/p>\n
To dismiss us with empty gestures<\/p>\n
Co-opt us with<\/p>\n
Empty feel-good lectures<\/p>\n
To get us OFF THE STREETS<\/p>\n
Cast votes?<\/p>\n
No! Liberate the ground under your feet<\/p>\n
Serve the people where we live<\/p>\n
With programs devised to give<\/p>\n
What we need to get free<\/p>\n
Call the shots<\/p>\n
Dismantle the rich man’s political plots<\/p>\n
We need Panther Vision<\/p>\n
Revolutionary Intercommunalism<\/p>\n
A movement to empower the people<\/p>\n
Led by working class women<\/p>\n
Not to feminize capitalism<\/p>\n
Nor polarize like feminism<\/p>\n
But to unify and distribute power equally<\/p>\n
Under socialism<\/p>\n
With our Comrade sistas back forward!<\/p>\n
Stop programming Black children<\/p>\n
To live in<\/p>\n
Terror with “The talk”<\/p>\n
Revive the courage to patrol the pigs<\/p>\n
Like Assata Shakur taught us to walk<\/p>\n
Ten toes down for freedom<\/p>\n
Heads held high<\/p>\n
We have nothing to fear if we unify<\/p>\n
Like the Civil War<\/p>\n
It wasn’t Lincoln’s proclamation<\/p>\n
We took up arms united fought and won our own emancipation<\/p>\n
Problem was it took a racist politician<\/p>\n
To give us permission<\/p>\n
But a comrade sista lit the way<\/p>\n
What did Harriet Tubman say?<\/p>\n
Go free or die!<\/p>\n
Go free or die!<\/p>\n
Together we can get free if we but try<\/p>\n
How indeed have we survived our ordeals?<\/p>\n
While many who suffered far less have heeled<\/p>\n
What’s the glue that’s kept us bonded<\/p>\n
All the way from the days of bondage<\/p>\n
Grandmammas took up the slack<\/p>\n
Whips cracked across their backs<\/p>\n
At every turn racist rape attacks<\/p>\n
They never stopped fighting back<\/p>\n
But now we make them feel they lack<\/p>\n
Let’s bring them ALL the way back<\/p>\n
FORWARD!<\/p>\n
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*Dedicated to Safiya Bukhari, Assata Shakur, Harriet Tubman, Winnie Mandela, Afeni Shakur, Kathleen Cleaver and all the comrade sistas of renown and of little mention who stood without comprise for the liberation of oppressed peoples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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