I Can’t Deny What I See

Does the color brown just offend you?
Did I do something against you?
Did I pretend to be your friend?
Kill your whole family and then apprehend you?

Did I condemn you? Insult you just to transcend you?
Did I upend you? Did I bend you? Or send you
To the bottom of a boat, to overextend you?

Did I take away your name and religion?
Did I change your position?
Invade your land rape your women?
I gave you addictions!?
I made you Christian!?

Get back in the kitchen, Nigga!

Did I make you feel lessor?
Am I your oppressor?

Why do you hate me, then?

Why do you hate my skin?
Why do you hate my kin?

I really don't get it
Man I'm confused, I really don't get it

We've been whipped in the streets
Mauled by dogs
Fire-hosed down
Bullshit laws
Shot by cops
Probable cause
Hung from trees
But it's not your fault...

We should act better
He should've complied
And he wouldn't have died
He'd still be alive

These are words from a coward
Cause you still got the power
To change the narrative
And make your shit, smell like flowers

So racism is dead right?
(Because) we had a black pres right?
So no more bloodshed, right?
That what they said, right?
It's not so widespread, right?
(We're) not being misled, right?
We can trust the cops and feds, right?
There's nothing to dread, right?
Wrong

Different lyrics same song
Still say my name wrong
I still don't belong
Can't we all get along?
Word to Rodney, Breonna, and George
Fred Hampton shot on the floor
FBI kicked in the door
Elijah McClain, innocent corps

This is supposed to be the Land of the free
But I can't deny what I see
So much hatred towards anyone who looks like me
This ain't nothin' new though
I don't know what to do, though
This broken system needs to be fixed
Ain't that the truth, though?

So we just ride till we die
And celebrate the 4th of July
But in 1776 we're still apart of
Demand and supply
That freedom wasn't for us
Maybe it'll never be
Blind people leading people blind
Maybe we'll never see