White Supremacy Is the Enemy by THA CAPITAL G Lyrics
[Intro: Malcolm X Speeches]
Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair?
Who taught you to hate the color of your skin?
We are exploited. We are downtrodden
We are denied not only civil rights, but even human rights
So the only way we’re going to get some of this oppression
And exploitation away from us or aside from us
Is come together against the common enemy
[Verse 1: THA CAPITAL G]
Beautiful brown skin, beautiful brown eyes
Baby, I’m big and Black, I’ll never downsize
The darkest of brown hair with light brown highlights
All I see is God given beauty with my sight
We have it tougher though, they want us to suffer yo
They believe our natural skin color’s insufferable
The darker your skin, the worse that you are treated
That’s across all cultures but we won’t be defeated
If you have white skin, congratulations, whitey you made it
Your privilege comes from 1600’s. Whiteness invaded
Claimed to be superior and slaughtered the natives
Kidnapped, tortured, and raped us, and then they enslaved us
Those who weren’t thrown in the sea, worked to the bone for free
Abused, tormented, beat, for centuries
The kicker is slavery was never abolished
They just changed it to prison systems, they simply evolved it
[Hook: THA CAPITAL G]
White supremacy is the enemy
That’s how this world works, ever so presently
If you’re ivory, you get amenities
But if you’re ebony, there’s no serenity
White supremacy is the enemy
KKK, ‘merican chemistry
Slaughter and slavery is white identity
Black reparations is the remedy
[Tim Wise Speech]
‘Cause if you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness
If you know the history of the whole concept of the white race
Where it came from and for what reason
You know that it was a trick and it’s worked brilliantly
See, prior to the mid to late 1600’s
In the colonies of what would become the United States
There was no such thing as the white race
Those of us of European decent did not refer to ourselves by that term
Really, ever, before then
[Verse 2: THA CAPITAL G]
Beautiful brown skin, beautiful brown eyes
Baby, I’m big and Black, I’ll never downsize
Beautiful brown lips, beautiful brown nose
Those aren’t big on us, you just don’t have those
You called us nigga lips then went and got lip fillers
Wow Karen, really, you look ridiculous
You insulted us because you don’t look like us
Then you got surgery in attempt to look like us
Really, it’s true, you must be confused
White people put Black people in human zoos
They put Saartjie Baartman in a cage and made her dance
Now white woman wanna go and get big butt implants
Don’t forget the tan, of course Black women’s slang
They copy everything except for being slain
They even copy our hair and call it a fashion statement
But then call ours ghetto for employment discrimination, it’s frustrating
[Hook: THA CAPITAL G]
White supremacy is the enemy
That’s how this world works, ever so presently
If you’re ivory, you get amenities
But if you’re ebony, there’s no serenity
White supremacy is the enemy
KKK, ‘merican chemistry
Slaughter and slavery is white identity
Black reparations is the remedy
[Tim Wise Speech]
In the old countries of Europe, we had spent most of our time killing each other
We didn’t love each other, we weren’t one big happy family
The side of my family that comes from Scotland
Hell, they didn’t even worry about fighting people outside of Scotland
Highlanders and lowlanders just fought the hell out of each other
So there was no white race
But in the colonies of what would become the United States
What did we see?
Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair?
Who taught you to hate the color of your skin?
We are exploited. We are downtrodden
We are denied not only civil rights, but even human rights
So the only way we’re going to get some of this oppression
And exploitation away from us or aside from us
Is come together against the common enemy
[Verse 1: THA CAPITAL G]
Beautiful brown skin, beautiful brown eyes
Baby, I’m big and Black, I’ll never downsize
The darkest of brown hair with light brown highlights
All I see is God given beauty with my sight
We have it tougher though, they want us to suffer yo
They believe our natural skin color’s insufferable
The darker your skin, the worse that you are treated
That’s across all cultures but we won’t be defeated
If you have white skin, congratulations, whitey you made it
Your privilege comes from 1600’s. Whiteness invaded
Claimed to be superior and slaughtered the natives
Kidnapped, tortured, and raped us, and then they enslaved us
Those who weren’t thrown in the sea, worked to the bone for free
Abused, tormented, beat, for centuries
The kicker is slavery was never abolished
They just changed it to prison systems, they simply evolved it
[Hook: THA CAPITAL G]
White supremacy is the enemy
That’s how this world works, ever so presently
If you’re ivory, you get amenities
But if you’re ebony, there’s no serenity
White supremacy is the enemy
KKK, ‘merican chemistry
Slaughter and slavery is white identity
Black reparations is the remedy
[Tim Wise Speech]
‘Cause if you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness
If you know the history of the whole concept of the white race
Where it came from and for what reason
You know that it was a trick and it’s worked brilliantly
See, prior to the mid to late 1600’s
In the colonies of what would become the United States
There was no such thing as the white race
Those of us of European decent did not refer to ourselves by that term
Really, ever, before then
[Verse 2: THA CAPITAL G]
Beautiful brown skin, beautiful brown eyes
Baby, I’m big and Black, I’ll never downsize
Beautiful brown lips, beautiful brown nose
Those aren’t big on us, you just don’t have those
You called us nigga lips then went and got lip fillers
Wow Karen, really, you look ridiculous
You insulted us because you don’t look like us
Then you got surgery in attempt to look like us
Really, it’s true, you must be confused
White people put Black people in human zoos
They put Saartjie Baartman in a cage and made her dance
Now white woman wanna go and get big butt implants
Don’t forget the tan, of course Black women’s slang
They copy everything except for being slain
They even copy our hair and call it a fashion statement
But then call ours ghetto for employment discrimination, it’s frustrating
[Hook: THA CAPITAL G]
White supremacy is the enemy
That’s how this world works, ever so presently
If you’re ivory, you get amenities
But if you’re ebony, there’s no serenity
White supremacy is the enemy
KKK, ‘merican chemistry
Slaughter and slavery is white identity
Black reparations is the remedy
[Tim Wise Speech]
In the old countries of Europe, we had spent most of our time killing each other
We didn’t love each other, we weren’t one big happy family
The side of my family that comes from Scotland
Hell, they didn’t even worry about fighting people outside of Scotland
Highlanders and lowlanders just fought the hell out of each other
So there was no white race
But in the colonies of what would become the United States
What did we see?