cuetbruin
01-05-2005, 06:43 AM
You sit there, grinning, thinking only vain repetition.
Words that your father said, mingled with the emotion that your mother had.
Allowing the hollow thoughts to convolute into something even you can’t comprehend.
Stop foolin’ yourself.
As I watch you, alone on the street corner, sucking silently to the ideas that you so desperately cling to, I am disgusted.
Stop fooling yourself.
With nothing more than drunken audacity, you mumble ambiguous expressions of violent obsessions that lead me to believe that your hatred is nothing more than a Freudian slip for the desire that you have to be me.
I am your worst dream and your number one nightmare.
However, I am not a threat because I can read and write, but because I can recite the solemn words of Malcolm X, Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, and Harriet Tubman. ‘Cause I know how to read the stars and lead my people to the promised land that the textbooks and teachers won’t show them. ‘Cause I know the pages missing in American History, especially the nineteen sixties.
I am the Educated Negro, and ain’t nothin’ gonna stop me.
So stop foolin’ yourself age-emaciated white generation of Black-Sploitation, Vanilla Ice, and Eminem, cause your end is yesterday, and our beginning is right now.
What? You did not hear me?
I am the Educated Negro and ain’t nothin’ gonna stop me!
Words that your father said, mingled with the emotion that your mother had.
Allowing the hollow thoughts to convolute into something even you can’t comprehend.
Stop foolin’ yourself.
As I watch you, alone on the street corner, sucking silently to the ideas that you so desperately cling to, I am disgusted.
Stop fooling yourself.
With nothing more than drunken audacity, you mumble ambiguous expressions of violent obsessions that lead me to believe that your hatred is nothing more than a Freudian slip for the desire that you have to be me.
I am your worst dream and your number one nightmare.
However, I am not a threat because I can read and write, but because I can recite the solemn words of Malcolm X, Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, and Harriet Tubman. ‘Cause I know how to read the stars and lead my people to the promised land that the textbooks and teachers won’t show them. ‘Cause I know the pages missing in American History, especially the nineteen sixties.
I am the Educated Negro, and ain’t nothin’ gonna stop me.
So stop foolin’ yourself age-emaciated white generation of Black-Sploitation, Vanilla Ice, and Eminem, cause your end is yesterday, and our beginning is right now.
What? You did not hear me?
I am the Educated Negro and ain’t nothin’ gonna stop me!