I am Black

Gavin Smith

I am black and that determined my track A truth that was born from hatred that scares black mothers to the point that they fainted from the police shootings to the hand of a jazz players tuning

A racist motion grew from the white man’s commotion a notion that resembles a boat’s motion we were taken from a land, no we were chosen

I am black and that shouldn’t be my track It shouldn’t determine my track A truth that was born from hatred shouldn’t make me feel tainted black mothers shouldn’t have fainted but celebrated The fact we are graduating and cultivating

A racist motion grown from an old man’s commotion shouldn’t be the notion that reminds of us of the old boat’s motion we might have been taken from a land being chosen to compete in a race were we have felt frozen but God knows we are his chosen So i am black and that has become my fact

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