Yes I'm here
Even though I didn't ask to be
Came over in pain
On a ship
Had to give up freedom from my country
No family I see
No free air I breathe
Had to fight everyday of my life
So u can stand here and be all u can be
But see
You don't care about your ancient history
Cause I help build the soil that's under your feet
But yet you hate me
Discriminate against me
And also chase me
Away
From all the good things
I help build today
In a way
You owe me
How?
Let's see
Shall we
Taking me from my home
Beating me when I'm alone
Raping me
Abusing me
Misusing me
Treating me like I'm nothing
But yet I can be anything u can be
Yet we folks gotta leave in the ghetto and
Streets gotta be messed up and
Can get a good deal on a car
Cause it's too high and
Have are kids fail
Cause the system won't put books in the ghetto schools and
Charge us more then others
Cause the know we can't afford it, man
You see what I'm saying
All these people playing
With our minds
And it's even people of
Our own kind
But you gon respect me
Cause I can do the same things u do
I can have a life, kids and love
Which is more then I can say for u
I came here
Dying and willing
I came here
Sighing and breathing heavily
I came here
Knowing that there was no way
That u would accept me
But I didn't ask to be here
In your United Nation
I didn't ask to be mixed
Black, White, Porto Rican or Asian
I didn't ask to stop all your hating
Cause all I'm saying is
Is
That treatment has to come to a stop
Stop putting the Blacks on bottom
And the whites on top
Living a separate life
This I can't mend
I seen a lot of this treatment
And it's time for this to end
You treat us like us being here
Is a racial and mortal sin
Well I'm here, so deal
I not going anywhere
And I am all African American
