Melanos
Hey you melanos
You look suspicious
destructive chaotic
dark and murky
You look alien to me
I do not understand you
you are dark
dim and gloomy
I can not see you
Therefore I do not trust you
Everything you do
Every move you make
you do in the darkness of your skin
When you walk slow
Your walking fast
When you reach
I can not see what you are reaching for
Melanos everything you do is in secret
In your darkness
you are hidden
In your murkiness
I cannot see you
Therefore I do not trust you
I do not see anything human about you
lets put you to use
Go work in the fields for five hundred years
Go pick that cotton
I will sit on my porch and watch
So
you all are free now
hmm my fields need work (thinking silently)
I saw you sitting on your porch the other day
you walk slow to
talk slow and I saw you all on TV the other day in your poverty
Say, you all are lazy
What are you saying
I can not hear you
I can not understand what you are saying
I speak ain't
you speak kunta-kinte
Now you speak ain't
and I speak isn't
now you speak isn't
and I speak is not
say, why do you speak in so many contractions
What are you standing still for
Do not walk my way
You make me nervous
Go stand over there
Go eat on the other side
Go live on the other side of town
Talk slow when I'm talking
Walk slowly when I'm walking
reach slow when I'm inspecting
Say, you look like you are getting too much freedom
you can not have the same privileges I have
walk slowly towards me
raise your hands slowly
let me see some identification
reach slowly
I can not see what you are doing
You are melanos
you look suspicious destructive chaotic and murky
you move in secret
in the darkness of your skin
Halt
because you move in secret
you are moving to fast
pow pow
Why is everybody pointing fingers at me for
do you not know that all lives matter
Why are you standing still
In your darkness, you are a monster
you are destructive and chaotic
In your darkness, you walk in filth
In your darkness, you are concealed in everything you do
you are a thief
What are you standing around for
in the melanos of your skin
you are destructive
chaotic like the wilderness
you need to be conformed
civilized
imperialized, ethnocentrictized
Say, what are you standing still for looking destructive
chaotic melanos in the murkiness of your skin
I can not see you
Say, what are you doing
are you working anywhere
Say now, what are you doing these days
so whatcha been up to
oh, so your working at so and so now
good to hear
"Stay out of trouble, you hear"...