[Spoken Word: Khalid Muhammad]
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When they took us from Africa
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They stripped us of our diamonds
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And our gold and our silver
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Our material resource, our spiritual resource
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And our human resource
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And when we came here
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Most of the time we didnt have shoes
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We went barefoot
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They stripped the Black woman
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Of whatever little tass-brad she had
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Nine months pregnant, tied her up
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Tie horses to one leg, horses to the other leg
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Beat the horses, make them run in opposite directions
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Until they rip and pull the Black woman apart
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And the unborn Black baby hauled off her
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And a no good cracker would bring another Black woman on
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Her stomach full nine months with the fruit of her womb
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Take a knife and stick it in her full stomach
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With the roundness of her stomach and rip it open
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And stick in AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea
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Hand inside and snatched the unborn Black baby from her
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Threw it to the ground and crushed the babys head
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With his boot Gs
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Make the other pregnant Black women watch
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So that the adrenaline of fear
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Would cross its way through her veins
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And strain her brains
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And touch the unborn life in her
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Hoping that the babies will be born
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Afraid of a wicked cruel slave master
