Effects Of Slavery-Macka B

[ti:Effects Of Slavery] [ar:Macka B] [al:Global Messenger] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Effects Of Slavery - Macka B [00:11.09]Some people nah go like weh me say but me a go say it anyway [00:15.28]Me a go talk about slavery and the effects of it today [00:18.27] [00:20.15]Some people just don't want to know about 400 years ago [00:23.76] [00:24.82]But the thing about slavery it's affecting people now [00:27.76] [00:28.45]I tell you no lie when I see a film about slavery water comes to my eye [00:33.06]You want to know why because it was me [00:35.93]I'm the same black man hanging in that tree [00:37.83]You see they couldn't control my soul so they had to control my body [00:42.19]Mysteriously I and I has returned as the big Rastaman Macka B see [00:47.91]What about all the lifes that were lost what about the black holocaust [00:51.97] [00:52.48]What about African slavery and what it's done to you and me [00:55.66] [00:57.22]What about all the blood that was shed what about the innocent dead [01:01.40]What about when the ship overload and they throw them overboard [01:03.52] [01:05.45]Oh I can see the effects of slavery still inna the community [01:09.76]No identity suffering from amnesia a case of lost memory [01:14.34]Black man and woman can't you see your history never start on the plantation [01:19.20]Original man man of creation father of all nation [01:23.91]Just stay strong let go the brainwashed mentality don't gwan like a Babylonian [01:28.38]The road is long you gonna meet a lot of obstacles don't bow to the temptation [01:33.02]Run Satan tell the boy fi go weh you no inna nutten wid him plan [01:38.64]Hold up your hand to the almighty one you are part of a great nation man [01:43.76]What about all the mothers that cried what about all the children that died [01:47.75]What about all the suicide and the pain we feel inside [01:50.80] [01:52.67]What about all the shackles and chains what about the messing up of the brains [01:57.11]Don't know from where you came you don't even know your name [02:02.29]Aided and abetted by some unscrupulous Africans [02:04.16] [02:05.47]100 million is the estimation that died on the crossing or the plantation [02:08.69]With no compensation [02:10.56] [02:11.25]Holocaust is a word that they use for what the Nazis did to the Jews [02:15.31]Compensation was never refused [02:17.30]Their own land they even got to choose [02:19.43] [02:20.53]So what's wrong with us was the Black holocaust not so serious [02:23.86] [02:24.92]So what's wrong with us was the Black holocaust not so serious [02:28.41] [02:29.47]So what's wrong with us was the Black holocaust not so serious [02:33.65]So what's wrong with us was the Black holocaust not so serious [02:37.59] [02:38.58]Some people nah go like weh me say but me a go say it anyway [02:43.26]Me a go talk about slavery and the effects of it today [02:46.26] [02:47.95]Some people just don't want to know about 400 years ago [02:51.37] [02:52.43]But the thing about slavery it's affecting people now [02:55.06] [02:57.24]What about all the lifes that were lost what about the black holocaust [03:00.71] [03:01.58]What about African slavery and what it's done to you and me [03:05.33] [03:06.51]What about all the blood that was shed what about the innocent dead [03:11.06]What about when the ship overload and they throw them overboard