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MP3 5.9 MB • 128 kbps • 6:25
Story behind the song
I'm a Black woman married to a White man. This poem is a conversation between me and a composite of many real characters I've met.
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He said, "What are you?
Where you from, Brooklyn, Queens, the Flats?"
I said, "It ain't where you from, it's where you going
or like Rakim said, 'Where ya at?'"
Since I knew some Hip Hop history he automatically assumed I was black.
Then he began to push up so I had to break him down.
I said, "First, I have a man so wait a minute -- don't clown."
He said, "He let you run free?"
"We have a marriage of liberation - not incarceration,
I am where I want to be, but if you look a little closer you'll see
he's in another conversation standing beside me."
He said, "You couldnt find a Black man?"
Yes, he was bold with a clear goal.
I told him his good ol boy, Clarence Thomas looks Black but has no soul.
"Listen, he thinks a lot like Bono from U2, let me introduce you."
He said, "Who?"
I asked, "Is being black the only necessity for you?"
"Woman, don't you know your history?"
I let him know I represent the mother of all civilization,
this is no biological mystery.
I'm proud that I roll with a diverse crew.
I asked, "Are there 36 colors or 3 primary flavors?"
He said, "I dont know." I said, "Huh, I thought you knew.
Truth is scientists can't even agree.
You see I earned that college degree and you also could benefit from a class in anthropology."
He said, "Whatevah, you married the white man."
I laughed and said, "I'm married TO a white man and he happens to be the right man."
Mr. Wrong said, "Your loss, you could have had me."
I was thinking, Whoa! Woo! Controversy!
"Stop right there. I didn't even know you and, given your rush to judgment,
I don't think you would have ever been in the running, boo.
When I was growing up I did my homework.
Someone that sounded a lot like you said I was acting White.
When then and now I continue to uplift the Black plight.
No, rude boy, I didn't rule out any color in my Crayola box.
But I used to think that White women who dated Black men should be put on lock.
For years I shook my head at the thought of coloring outside the line
until Cupid shot an arrow straight through my behind.
You're free to date a White woman or a White man and I'd be fine.
"I know you think its all about the fever for forbidden flavor because, 'Oooh,
all mixed couples are the same.
All Whites are rich and want blacks physically or mentally chained.'
"If you hate White people so much, stop wearing their clothes and watching their television shows.
Why are you acting like we are fresh off slavery and not one thing has changed?
Work on more dual citizenship or could you try to rebuild Garvey's Back to Africa campaign?
Even if we were still on the plantation you would be the first one trying to claim,
'Massa, she should be in the field, and I should be in the house!'
"Like Cane and Able your jealousy would bring the most division and pain.
It is similar to Black on Black crime in the Sudan or
the White on White crime of the Jewish holocaust.
Money and power in the wrong hands = greed,
means the women and the leaders are lost.
"Classification by race was created out of fear in1758 by a Swedish man with a complex.
Other than albinos, his creed was vanishing with intermingling and sex.
So when interracial couples create more of his idea of Blacks, you want to bring vex?
But you are the main one sweating Mariah Carey and Halle Berry
like were mixing donkeys with monkeys like Harry.
"You see my husband is my Ying and I am his Yang.
While you may think its strange, balance we maintain.
"I hope next time you'll change your strategy and get a clue.
I don't have to be anti-White to love myself and
I can still choose to be pro-Black when graced by a true Afrikan king. (I said 'True.')
Focusing on eyes, hair texture, skin color, and a last name,
will not tell you if a cultural heritage or legacy is being maintained.
"But I'll answer the initial question for you.
Some call me His English, a mixture of Rican, Black Cherokee, and Jew."
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