Macka B - Effects of slavery

Izvajalec besedila pesmi je Macka B.

Well some people like to dismiss slavery like it was nutten
But you see slavery it can never be forgotten


Some people nah go like weh me say, but me a go say it anyway
Me a go talk about slavery and the effects of it today
Some people just don't want to know, about 400 years ago
But the thing about slavery it's affecting people now


I tell you no lie when I see a film about slavery water comes to my eye
You want to know why, because it was me
I'm the same black man hanging in that tree
You see, they couldn't control my soul so they had to control my body
Mysteriously I and I has returned as the big Rastaman Macka B, see


What about all the lifes that were lost, what about the black holocaust
What about African slavery and what it's done to you and me
What about all the blood that was shed what about the innocent dead
What about when the ship overload and they throw them overboard


Oh I can see the effects of slavery still inna the community
No identity suffering from amnesia, a case of lost memory
Black man and woman can't you see your history never start on the plantation
Original man, man of creation, father of all nation
Just stay strong let go the brainwashed mentality don't gwan like a Babylonian
The road is long you gonna meet a lot of obstacles don't bow to the temptation
Run Satan tell the boy fi go weh you no inna nutten wid him plan
Hold up your hand to the almighty one, you are part of a great nation, man


What about all the mothers that cried, what about all the children that died
What about all the suicide, and the pain we feel inside
What about all the shackles and chains what about the messing up of the brains
Don't know from where you came, you don't even know your name


Aided and abetted by some unscrupulous Africans
100 million is the estimation that died on the crossing or the plantation
With no compensation
Holocaust is a word that they use for what the Nazis did to the Jews
Compensation was never refused
Their own land they even got to choose
So what's wrong with us was the Black holocaust not so serious (4x)


Some people nah go like weh me say, but me a go say it anyway
Me a go talk about slavery and the effects of it today
Some people just don't want to know, about 400 years ago
But the thing about slavery it's affecting people now


What about all the lifes that were lost, what about the black holocaust
What about African slavery and what it's done to you and me
What about all the blood that was shed what about the innocent dead
What about when the ship overload and they throw them overboard


What about all the mothers that cried, what about all the children that died
What about all the suicide, and the pain we feel inside
What about all the shackles and chains what about the messing up of the brains
Don't know from where you came, you don't even know your name
You don't know from where you came, you don't even know your name
You don't know from where you came, you don't even know your name
Rastafar I

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