Kamar O'Guinn

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Still Dreaming
(Dedicate to Martin Luther King Jr. and all those who were truly down with liberation)

Though it may seem
Racism, Colonialism and every other "ism"
Did not die with King
It is simply less seen
Shh! Shh! Hush! Hush!
Lets cover it up
Sweep it under the rug
It can be seen in the
Reason that that Black boy
Is forced to sell drugs
And how he is killed by
The same 9mm Ruger
That was use in Fallujah
Racism is in the way
The U.S flexes its might
Secretly killing in the middle of the night
Ask Condoleeza Rice
How they use economics to
Globally dictate what's wrong and what's right
That's why Public Enemy wrote Don't Believe the Hype!

King was cursed, spat on, jailed, beat by pipes
All so that we could be afforded basic human rights
However when you dig deep in the shit
You realize more and more
That they don't exist
When the poor get poorer and the rich get richer
See the picture
Those diamonds you wear
Come from the bondage of our brother
I mean at the price of the life of that
Same old traditionally considered
AFRICAN NIGGER!

Sicker and sicker
Hotter and Hotter
The death the slaughter
God bless the Daughters
With their fair share of bread and water
For sexism is still here
All you must do is peer
Behind the veil of fear
Erected by those in power

Human rights is a utopian concept not a reality
Here's the evidence:
Rwandan skeletons
The UN's irrelevance
Colored imprisonment
Bush's coalition
Native American reservations
Mexican labor expectation….ALIENATION
I have no patience
For sexual enslavement
Ethnic cleansing
Blood stained pavements
This is no profound revelation
Or some God sent proverb
Just accept my method
Feel my appeal
Admit that South Africa was real

King's dream has not materialized
Not for me and certainly not for you
His dream has only been tokenized, disguised
They want to see our demise
Black people stay strong!
Black people stay alive!

Stop being cowards
When life is sour
Fight the power
Even if it means being like King
Dying for the cause
As a worthy martyr
As times get harder and harder
I get smarter
Still fighting in the tradition of Nat Turner
Because life is a monster
Better yet a beast
Sometimes it gets hard to sleep
Call me naive
But I still fight for peace
To unite West and East
Muslim. Pagan, Christian

Because giving up the fight
Is the ULTIMATE SIN!