Macka B - Effects Of Slavery
Like it was not nothing
But this ya 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 lives 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 gwaan 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
A hundred 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?
What's wrong with us, was the black holocaust not so serious?
What's wrong with us, was the black holocaust not so serious?
What's wrong with us, was the black holocaust not so serious?
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 lives 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
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