Melanin blues

How are you going to be a super hero in your African American skin?

The defamation due to melanin is at an all time high. The deeper the roots the more propaganda they spew!

Delivering the message of belittling... Congregating behind government titles to demolish you from childhood... no enrichment

The troubled white teen shoots up a school.
The violent African American villain became the terrorist at the school
(don't let that fly over your head... don't be fooled)

The propaganda is at an all time high!!!

The shift from remembering a purpose
has faded
defaming the character of many
equating the protestors to the minuscule ignorance surrounding just a portion of the movement for justice. 

We're screaming "DONT SHOOT!!!" 
as they take aim beyond our bodies. 

We're screaming "I CANT BREATHE!!" 

so they squeeze a little tighter
... on your freedom papers (supposedly abolished)

Instead they've been found locked away in safety deposit boxes at the very banks employing you just a taste higher than minimum wage

The very banks founded upon the vilification of the name slave
The very banks providing you the homes they snatch away when your minimum wage... minimum slave pay... minimum slave brain can't afford the interest of their buildings

Now do I have your interest?

Entrapping our cultures physically and mentally
Throwing our spirits into the bean bag of traditionalism

How are you going to be the hero in your African American skin?!?

You're screaming
"DON'T SHOOT"!
"I CAN'T BREATHE"!
"I'M UNARMED!"

See they watch as your life fades

For you were armed with the blackness

The blackness they fear

Power hungry statuettes

Unfamiliar with the concept of gluttony

For they've wanted it all... mommy and daddy ensured it was theirs
Theirs for the conquering... (old Christopher Columbus asses)

Unfair was it with thousands of years of US washed away

Textbooks of filth avoiding the discussion

We never infiltrated pop culture

Pop culture infiltrated us in disguise
Gentrification dripping all through YOUR neighborhoods

Grab that newspaper
Grab that internet search
Grab that membrane
Grab those corrective lenses
Correct your vision
Peep the positions.... you're in.... granted to silence your proclamation

No incognito renditions of the negro story

These KKK mother fuckers are grumbling like the skin of Jesus didn't mean he was our story

Using the very knowledge of the good book against you

White is pure; they convinced you

We trembled at the Trayvon's, Eric Garner's, Tamir Rice, and Mike Brown's appearance 
We trembled at the brothers we raised
We trembled at our brothers in the dark shade
We trembled in the mirror

Reflections null and void

The feeling of empty is dangerous 

So empty we forgot to tremble at the self hate influences we've subconsciously tripped over 

Styles degraded into simply being inhumane

They're washing us away quicker than we can wrap our brains around our ancestry being washed down their "American" drains

How are you going to be the super hero in your African American skin
Melanin blues singing me to a solemn sleep
Pumping fists in my dreams

DON'T SHOOT!
I CAN'T BREATHE!

We all seek... We've been reminded of what we may find. 
(take it how you want)