U DONE COME A LONG WAY BABY
To all the Massa’s, overseers, Uncle Tom’s, field niggers, house nigger’s, niggers in the woodpile, nigger lovers, nigger haters, or any other kind of nigger that contributed to the continuum.
To all the black folk who decided to stay fight and not run. Without u this historical era could have never begun.
U done come a long way baby?
From the beginning of free labor to a thankless nation.
To the lies of the Great Emancipation Proclamation.
To the fears of death that evaporated.
In the fight for integration.
That led to another kind of separation.
U done come a long way baby?
To the death defying struggles of attaining manhood.
That induced a psyche that stays in an improvisational mood.
U done come a long way baby?
To all the lye lard grease and potatoes that made nappy hair
become so called pretty and straight.
Patent leather looking hair that was escape.
To Madame Walker who got rich off the hot comb.
Right or wrong Sister Girl clocked dem dollars over a million strong.
With grease and hot comb.
The shames of naps were gone.
U done come a long way baby?
To all the wigs weaves, extension lifts, and falls that had sisters thinking that hair was the all in all.
To all the bushes, collagists fades, corn rows, plats braids, afros, a cold comb, and almighty dreads.
Stating emphatically I ain’t ashamed of my nappy ass head.
U done come a long way baby.
To all the bleaching crèmes lotions and potions designed to hide or take away our beautiful black identity.
U done come a long way baby?
To all the white folk who denounced ignorant insanity of racial superiority?
To all the parents who showed their kids their racial stupidity.
Showing them how not to be
U done come a long way baby?
To all the folk who taught their children that we are all children of the creator.
With none being greater.
U done come a long way baby?
To the music to the music that soothed the pains of this savage insanity.
Allowing us to move and groove and constantly improve in these turbulent seas of contradicting misery.
Allowing us to be more than they will ever see.
U done come a long way baby?
To all the dreams of that have allowed us to forget who we are.
To all the images that have allowed us to rise above the bar.
U done come a long way baby?
To all above I say thank you.
And with great sincerity.
For without u this historical election could never be.
For these are the times of the truths of realty.
Now as we forge ahead with great anticipation of a history making election.
Politically we strive to move towards improving some of humanity’s imperfections.
Obama defines the crowing heights of the American political arena.
A man with an infectious charismatic demeanor.
He is the evolution of a hopeful resolution.
Knowing he is not the entire solution.
U done come a long way baby.
I mean Bush McCain both richly insane with the same game.
Obama thrives off the drama.
A genius in the legalities of law.
Maybe a flaw.
The law more revered than the bible now becomes libel.
This genius will take it to never expected expectations.
Hopefully the road to human salvation.
So as we move from one era to another.
Who would have thought that a brother would lead the charge in the chaos of America’s push for a better world?
Where hopefully he will go where no Pres has dread to tread.
Allowing is to scream screams of creative phrases of jubilation laced with shouts of ecstatic elation.
Shouting to the top of the world.
Shouting to the top of the world
U done come a long way baby.
Yeah baby u know u done come a long way baby.