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chorus: i'm gon' spread my wings lift off the ground don't worry 'bout a thing won't never come down i'll fly i'm gon' lace my boots and take my time face my truth and take my climb and fly (the civil rights movement continues) nope, it's over race no longer exists, praise jehovah no more race cards if you just pray hard you can be anything you wanna be, thank God and if you still ain't got no money on your bank card or if your whip is still waiting for a paint job black children grow up, you can be whatever you want the world is your oyster just gotta pull yourself up i feel so relieved martin luther king's dream achieved post racial if you don't believe you've been deceived sag your pants, rock your cornrows and fros you can get a job now, race don't matter no more sister if your name ends in “isha” nice to meet ya go get a great job, be a doctor or a teacher bootstraps poster boy in the office, ode to joy this ain't no media ploy, racism truly is no more oh boy chorus no more equal but separated schools no longer segregated it's on you whether you fail or pass no more real estate steering no more down low dealing and no more stupid ass movies like “crash” (but blacks ain't athletic) and whites ain't just smart (blacks ain't horses and studs) and whites don't work hard came through dense fog whites don't smell like wet dog no more need to press hard just let go and let God no affirmative action for greedy lazy black ones meritocracy separates the strong from the slack ones richard wright's a boy ralph ellison's visible the klan's just a club one nation indivisible taking it further, angie stone just sings “brother” james weldon johnson really is no longer colored life became less complicated with our hero nominated never underestimated, degraded, denigrated, or hated man we made it celebrate it we all so progressive, so liberal, so elevated teens don't worry about going to separate proms ain't no more jungle fever but we still hear the drums that ain't black on black no more, it's just crime join the n double a p, 'cause it's about time everybody's feeling fine, everybody's feeling friendly no more woolworth's counter, let's get a grand slam at denny's chorus republicans insulted women photoshops of palin swimming bikini and rifle threw the election, got an eyeful and an earful black people oh so tearful he inherits the mess, no more struggle no stress so what's left? gender? sexuality? creed? (but can we still point out racism?) no indeed pull tar babies out the briar patch, out of the thicket but you talk about gay marriage all you gonna hear is crickets (one thing at a time, we just talking about color this ain't post sex, and we ain't all brothers) women earning 75 cents on the dollar but we got rid of race and that makes me wanna holler promise black voters nada they gon' vote for him regardless he talks the same garbage about the youth and black fathers it's a gaffle, a disgrace, spread across all fifty states the idea that in this country we no longer notice race? get out my face chorus if i offend then so be it post racial society? i don't intend to see it we will never be it (in my lifetime) but i might find the right rhyme at the right time ignite minds in my sight line to fight crime in this night time til then i got my iris focused on that papyrus never shut my eyelids gotta shout through the silence bigotry's a virus contagious and violent intolerance is subtle but erewhere you can find it in your music in your job in your TV in your heart in the thoughts that you lob in the words that are darts BULLSEYE turn on the tv hear the fools lie they all blowing smokey smoke don't fall for the okey doke he had to run the perfect election to get y'all to respect him and still barely squeaked in at the end but God bless him (you say you ain't racist?) you ain't too too honest (you think race is dead?) look at youtube comments in your brain in your veins in your pain it's ingrained in the way you look at the world, your peers, who you blame it's behind closed doors on the web and in ya head it's on dance floors, in ya pores and in ya bed clubs, schools, and churches are still segregated as ever—everything but the military and jail but y'all think only blacks in there so what the hell with more blacks on welfare with no health care, fail fabricated stats about incarcerated blacks and numbers of black men in college all pushed as common knowledge black people—race racism class victims blame each other for their conditions listen it's all a system and the half black pres ain't helping when i'm getting told to get on my knees and put myhands behind my head ain't helping if i'm dead, gotta go and do for self and if race ever disappeared we'd replace it with something else, come on
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