Chords for Prayers - Racism In America, Not Being Satanic, & Lack Of Resources For My People (247HH Exlcusive)

[E] _ _ [N] _ _ _ And I love everyone under the sun, man.
White, [Abm] black, brown, yellow, red.
But come on, man, let's keep it real.
[B] There is such a thing as white supremacy,
especially here in America, you know what I'm saying?
And you saw it, like when I was on trial,
I had broken someone's arm, right?
I had broken someone's arm in self-defense.
During that whole time, my lawyer suggests
that I take anger management [Am] courses, right?
So that I can present those to the judge [G] during my trial.
During these courses that I'm taking,
you know, there's this girl, right?
And she's white.
You know, she's bragging about how she stabbed
her boyfriend with scissors 14 times.
She's like, I stabbed my boyfriend 14 times
because he cheated on me.
And all she got was a slap on the wrist, probation.
Yet I'm fighting, you know, seven years
for breaking someone's arm.
They're trying to put me in prison for seven years
for breaking someone's arm.
[A] And then there's this white girl
who stabbed somebody 14 times,
just because she was, you know, upset with her dude,
and she just got probation.
So yeah, man, of course, man, let's keep it real.
We all know this.
We all know that, you know,
that people of color are oppressed.
And we know it.
I mean, look at the news.
[N] I mean, all our people are always incarcerated.
You know, all the police are always just policing
the poor neighborhoods, you know,
because we're what, you know?
Because we're under-resourced, that's what it [Am] is.
You change the environment,
and you will change the outlook of the person of color.
You give us hope, right?
And we start doing better for ourselves.
But you take [B] away all the hope,
and you just give us the only option is prison?
Well, then I guess that's where we're gonna end up, right?
So, but nah, man, of course, I'm not racist, man.
And I'm not, you know, and I'm not satanic, man.
That's the other thing too.
That's another thing that goes around about me,
people saying that I'm satanic,
but I'm not, man, I'm Luciferian,
which is a complete something else.
I am the reason why [A] people
are able to think for themselves.
I am that apple that Adam bit into.
I am the serpent, you know what I'm saying,
that Eve listened to.
If not, you'd still be fucking in [G] some garden somewhere,
just unaware of [B] life, unaware of yourself.
So how are you gonna demonize me
when I gave you the freedom that you have?
Because I'm indigenous to this continent, right?
Right, because my people,
we are the indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere,
yet we were demonized by the Europeans.
They came here in 1492,
and they're the ones that raped our people, right?
And they're the ones that hung and burned
and killed our people, right?
And then they divided our continent amongst themselves,
right, against within the French,
within the Spanish, within [E] the British, right?
And 95% of our people were slaughtered, right,
by the white settlers, by the settlers, right?
They came here and slaughtered all our people,
95% of them, right, and only 5% of our people [Abm] were left,
and they had to become Christian or Catholic.
But now we're the majority.
We went from being the 5% to being the majority
here back in our continent, right?
The truth of the matter is that our civilization,
[Em] you know, goes back to [A] 3700 BC.
We're older than Egypt.
You know, we had our [B] own customs.
We had our own cities.
We had our own culture.
But you're unaware of that,
because history here in America doesn't teach you that,
right, it just teaches you, ah, we traded and bartered.
You know, you gave us a turkey
and we gave you some blankets.
Those are just facts, you know?
I'm a no-way racist.
If what I'm saying makes you feel a certain type of [G] way,
then that's good.
That means that you [B] have a consciousness.
You know, that means that you're awake, you know?
So it's okay for me, the truth is gonna hurt,
you know what I'm saying?
But in no way, shape, or form do I hate white people.
I love white people.
All my girlfriends, you know, have been white.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, [Am] all my, I mean, I've been colonized.
I've been colonized to think that white is right.
You know what I mean?
I went to a white school, [G] you know what I'm saying?
I grew up in a fucking Mexican neighborhood, you know?
I always was like, fuck, white is right.
The teachers are all white, the doctors are all white,
the police officers are all white.
I was like, fuck, maybe I should just date [B] white girls,
and that'll mean that I'm doing better for myself.
I'm trying to decolonize my own motherfucking mind, right?
You know, so therefore I had to become Lucifer, right?
Because our people,
how are you gonna fear what you've conquered?
Of course you're not gonna fear the Mexican
when you fucking make even Mexican a dirty word.
Why is Mexican a dirty word?
You know what I mean?
It's not, homie.
So we gotta be, what, Latinos?
We gotta be Hispanics?
Why can't we be Mexicans?
Hispanics are motherfucking Spaniards.
Latinos are Italians, both [Am] Europeans, [G] right?
White Europeans.
I'm a Mexican, I'm a Chica.
I'm not a Latino, I'm not a Hispanic, homie.
That's some whole other game
that you're not gonna run by me, you know what I'm saying?
You might run it by these fools that don't know
who have been colonized like I've been in the past.
That's why I have these Catholic Christian tattoos,
because I was colonized.
I haven't even removed them to remind me of my own slavery.
These are my shackles.
These remind me of the shit that I was unaware of.
It comes from the same place that [Am] oppresses us.
You know what I mean?
We're still being oppressed.
Our neighborhoods are being gentrified.
We have to have the scraps, [G] the leftover.
And I mean, people are saying like,
yo, [B] fucking America was built on the back of immigrants.
Yes, America was built on the back of immigrants.
I fucking agree 100%, but I'm not a fucking [C] immigrant.
I am the indigenous motherfucking person of this continent.
I am not an immigrant.
This is my motherfucking land.
[E] This is my continent.
I am not a fucking immigrant.
This is my shit.
I'm not from Europe.
I'm not from Asia.
You know what I'm saying?
Where am I supposed to go, homie?
To Africa?
To Japan?
To England?
I'm from fucking here.
I'm not a fucking immigrant.
This is my shit.
This is my land.
This is my people's land.
We build these temples.
This is our shit.
We are the indigenous people of the Western [B] Hemisphere.
So yeah, of course America was built
on the backs of immigrants,
but I'm not a motherfucking [E] immigrant.
Get that shit straight, you know what I'm saying?
[Gbm] Apparently she flipped on us,
wanted to get out of there ASAP,
didn't want anything to do with the bus.
[Bb] So she tried to tell the cops that we were harassing her.
That's the first time I've ever been on the other side
of a woman saying something that you didn't do.
That shit's terrifying.
[Gbm] Now I know what people feel like
when they get accused of something from a woman,
because man, it's your [A] word against hers.
And we're a bunch of dudes [Bm] on a bus out here touring,
looking [Gm] like how we look.
I come back over and the dude is getting up.
He's getting up, I'm talking about covered in blood,
can't breathe, he starts getting up,
bam, falling back down.
And he gets up on his knees and he's like,
ah, ah!
It looked [Dm] like something out of a movie.
He was the artist,
but now he's in a different position now.
So the later he gets in his career,
he's [F] more business now, he switched off.
He's more thinking business.
He wants to be that billionaire and he's gonna [Bb] get it.
Because I feel that I had confusion about [Gb] that.
I felt like, you know, I gotta go through time
and [Ab] come out and be tatted in [Ebm] the face
in order for people to respect me.
I would tell myself that a man [Bbm] that takes care of his family
[Ebm] is more important than a man that's out there [G] hurting people.
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