I'm the same man
On that podium, lend me the loudspeaker
I'm at the forefront of an Instigation
With an audible message louder than my voice
For the redemption of my skin colour
Because I'm the black man
Skin blacker than sin
Mental darker than sunset
They say I'm bathed in dirty grease
Bathing apes, they still flung bananas
Africa is a big jungle, we live on trees
Dad lounges on the biggest branch
Black heritage; descendants of fore fathers who were caged like wild gorillas
Cuffed in shackles, adorned in rags,chain gangs
Sold off in markets like stale commodities
Or traded for sugar and gun powders
Shipped like consignments in cargo ships
Packed in chambers like canned goods
Some disposed into the sea without a burial, no eulogy, no reefs... Just feed for fishes
The lucky ones; reapers singing Hymns in cotton fields
They were never employees... Slaves; whipped, raped, hanged, incinerated
The human race suffers racial segregation, the Apartheid.
The ku klux klan love my extermination and hate my emancipation
That hate me, my culture, my heritage and all of my race... Don't they?
I'm the victim of Racial profiling, being black is my crime
I'm the same man who isn't stereotyping
Call myself Malcolm X or Martin Luther king
And hashtag #JusticeForTrayvonMartin
I'm the same man
On that podium, lend me the loudspeaker
Calling out for racial justice
I'm the same black man that condemn the white man
Though my own forefathers sold us off for a few shillings and guns
But use that same gun to kill another black man
We've fallen to tribal wars and invasions
Black heritage but Tribalism and tribal profiling is shredding us into pieces
We hunt our own kind, are we colour blind?
Harm one another with Black magic, hexes and voodoo charms
Prey on each other like game; human sacrifices and rituals;
Albinos in East Africa and hunchbacks are on the endangered list
Autocratic dictators, Coup detats and uprisings
The countless genocides and homicides in Africa
Same skin but political affiliation divides us
Same skin but tribal allegiance separate us
Burn down the whole village because we belong to different parties
Ethnic discrimination, the typical example of nepotism
Sometimes blood isn't thicker than water
Because we've sacrificed family ties for kinship ties
Bloodlines become bad blood
Relatives become enemies
The same brothers of the same father shed blood flood because they emanate from different gates
I'm the same man on that podium
Oblivious to the irony
Unawares to the kind of a living paradox that I am
That I only generalise violence and barbarism based on skin colour
Violence is only an anomaly of human nature
They hate us, but do we love ourselves?
I wish we were all colour blind