Album Name : Global Messenger
Release Date : 2005-04-26
Song Duration : 3:48
Macka B Effects Of Slavery
Some people nah go like weh me say, but me a go say it anyway Me a go talk about slavery and the effects of it today Some people just don't want to know, about 400 years ago But the thing about slavery it's affecting people now
I tell you no lie when I see a film about slavery water comes to my eye You want to know why, because it was me I'm the same black man hanging in that tree You see, they couldn't control my soul so they had to control my body Mysteriously I and I has returned as the big Rastaman Macka B, see
What about all the lifes that were lost, what about the black holocaust What about African slavery and what it's done to you and me What about all the blood that was shed what about the innocent dead What about when the ship overload and they throw them overboard
Oh I can see the effects of slavery still inna the community No identity suffering from amnesia, a case of lost memory Black man and woman can't you see your history never start on the plantation Original man, man of creation, father of all nation Just stay strong let go the brainwashed mentality don't gwan like a Babylonian The road is long you gonna meet a lot of obstacles don't bow to the temptation Run Satan tell the boy fi go weh you no inna nutten wid him plan Hold up your hand to the almighty one, you are part of a great nation, man
What about all the mothers that cried, what about all the children that died What about all the suicide, and the pain we feel inside What about all the shackles and chains what about the messing up of the brains Don't know from where you came, you don't even know your name
Aided and abetted by some unscrupulous Africans 100 million is the estimation that died on the crossing or the plantation With no compensation Holocaust is a word that they use for what the Nazis did to the Jews Compensation was never refused Their own land they even got to choose So what's wrong with us was the Black holocaust not so serious (4x)
Some people nah go like weh me say, but me a go say it anyway Me a go talk about slavery and the effects of it today Some people just don't want to know, about 400 years ago But the thing about slavery it's affecting people now
What about all the lifes that were lost, what about the black holocaust What about African slavery and what it's done to you and me What about all the blood that was shed what about the innocent dead What about when the ship overload and they throw them overboard