Wake up Black people!

They say racism is over and i embrace the social rest
but when do Black people get to be seen at their best?
I'm not talking to the white man who is threatened by who we are and what we bring
I'm speaking to all you men and women of color who skate this rink
I'm pointing at all of us who tread on this thin ice we call earth
Those who have succumbed to this fatal black rebirth

Have we forgotten who we are?
We are the color of power with the ancestry of strength
We are the metaphor of hope hence...
our strength in numbers
but we have failed to exploit our greatness of a high degree
we have failed to show how it once was to live properly
instead we are in the new world order where
Rappers are talking about Fucking
Women feeding on sucking
dancing in the videos legs open to the world
saying they're setting an example for every little girl?

Money has become the only objective
Making a black mans life a black life perspective
forgetting we're instruments of glory
forgetting we all live to tell our miraculous story..
Of how we fought to be free
But we chose to hide our afro's and wear a weave
we use a lightening lotion even though the black can never leave
we wear our trousers low to show the world our cracks
we carry guns or we're stabbing guys in the back
we're selling drugs or we're leaving school as failures
forgetting Jesus Christ and accepting idols as saviors.
Come on Black people, Have we gone insane?
Are we really subjecting ourselves to our own self committed pain?
I don't understand...
Please explain...
Why in such habitual vices we chose to remain..

In this fatal rebirth of this black evolution
which has opened our community to such pollution
a demotion in greatness
and the promotion of weightless
substances in our lives
which take us to corners in our time which only God seems to despise

Wake up Black people! We are no longer Niggers
we are the faces of tomorrow, no more slavery figures
Wake up Black people and smell the Black coffee!
Its time for us to venture move your black body
Wake up! wake up! don't remain idle
Go for what is true and exalt your Black title.
Wake up Black people, and keep vigilant
stay true to what is real, be militant
Wake up Black people. Wake up.