YOU WANNA TAKE US BACK

YOU WANNA TAKE US BACK

 

You wanna take us backwards 

 With your backwards ass ways

To what your ghost of the past called “the good ol’ days”

Good times of oppression for me and my 

kind

Toiling, serving, bowing, while you wine and dine

When we said, yes'um, and couldn't look you in your eyes 

And, "they're just intellectually inferior" was your favorite lie

A time when you professed the religious values of a superior race

and hanged our ancestors from trees with a smile on your face 

A time in which you say we should just forget 

While you’re steady trying to recreate that hateful ass shit

Back to a system that MLK gave his life to destroy

And you covet in your heart with a twisted joy

Yeah, equality feels like oppression to privilege, they say

But, I can guarantee your ass, ain't gonna be no "back in the day"

Cause with the veracity of Martin we promise to you

The battle cry of Malcolm lives in us too

T.C

(2026)