Fake me over

Repost: Feb 1, 2007

 

Current mood:content

I know that I must be mindful of what I post on myspace. Something just has to be said about this Babylon system though....
Let me start off first by quoting, Stahhr the Femcee....
"Slavery has certainly done a number on us"
It is and always have been my stance to not let corporate Amerikkka change me into some walking conformed blob. Understanding that I must feed, clothed and house myself and receive paper from public and spiritual enemy number one...I still resist the movement against the spirit and soul that is me.
I know they see me as a threat. But you know what that kills me everyday, slowly....that fact that they have convinced my own people that I am a threat. Ya'll fail to overstand. I say that Amerikka is teaching our people that people like you and me are the threat. They think what we do is a passing fad...we are young and this is the fashion...this is cool - to do what we do.
Cut the bullshit. What we do is the truth! The truth is just that and it's real. The sorry part of this whole lie is that I got sistas telling me how to wear my hair, to wear make-up, keep my wardrobe simple and plain... all to please corporate AmeriKKKa!
My sistas, ya'll! Telling me that the way Jah made me is not acceptable. Telling me that loving myself as Jah made me is passing fad among youth! My sistas! Ya'll fail to overstand! The way this hurts me that my people have been so brainwashed to not see their ancestors in my style...to not feel their past in my soul. They think that I am a threat!
They want me to burn my African roots with chemicals created by Revlon. They want to cover the mohoghany tones of my skin with paint manufactured by L'oreal. They want to cover the strentgh that my hair represents....hide the earth that my skin represents. They want to turn this water bearer into cold hard stone...they want me to be just like everyone else.
They want to fake me over. They want me to buy into this babylon system and they using our own people to do this. But we don't see it. We are a threat to ourselves..and they no longer have to do the work....they don't even have to lift a finger.
For the right dollar amount, they pay us to do it to ourselves. Like throwing change to the savages. This is not about skin color, people. This is about an entire system. This is about society. AmeriKKKan society.
Some of us think that we are righteous just because we watch out for "the man" and we preach until we are blue in the face about racism and "the man".
Who the hell is "the man" anyways? Wake up and realize that we are playing ourselves. We are discriminating against ourselves...the very same people who rocked afros and dashikis in the 60's and 70's are the very ones that, today, are trying to fake me over.
Perhaps, it was a fad for you in your time...for me, it's the truth. Recognize.