I
Am [not] black I
Mean that's what the world calls me, but it's not me [I]
Didn't come out of my mother's womb saying hey everybody. I'm black
No, I was taught to be black
And you were taught to call me that along with whatever you call yourself is just a label
see from birth the world Force feeds us these labels and
Eventually we all swallow them we digest and accept the labels never ever doubting them, but there's one problem
Labels are not you and labels are not me labels are just labels
But who we truly are is not skin deep?
See when I drive my car. No one would ever confuse the car for me
Well when I drive my body, why did you confuse me for my body? It's my
Body get it not me let me break it down
So your bodies are [just] cars that we operate and drive around the dealership. We call society decided to label mine
the Black Edition yours the Irish or white edition and with no money [down] zero
Percent apr and no test drive. We were forced to own these cars for the rest of our lives
Forgive me, but I fail to see the logic or pride in defining myself or judging another by the cars. We drive
Because who we truly are is found inside?
Listen I'm not here to tell you how science has concluded that genetically
We're all mixed in racing the human species doesn't exist or how every historian knows that race was invented in the 15th century
to divide people from each other and it has worked perfectly no, I'm
Not here to lecture
I just want to ask one question
Who would you be if the world never gave you a label?
Never gave you a box to check
Would you be white Black Mexican Asian native American Middle Eastern Indian no?
We would be one we will be together
No longer living in the error of calling human beings black people or white [people]
These labels that will forever blind us from seeing a person for who they [are] but instead seeing them through the judgmental
prejudicial artificial filters of who we think they [are]
and when you let an artificial label to find yourself
Then my friend you have chosen smallness over greatness and minimized your self
Confined and divided your self from others
And it is an undeniable fact that where there is division there will be conflict and conflict starts Wars
Therefore every war [has] started over labels
It's always us versus them so the answer to war the racism and sexism and every other ism
Is so simple that every politician has missed it?
It's the labels
We must rip them off
Isn't it funny how no baby is born racist yet every baby cries when they hear the cries of another no matter the gender?
Culture or color proving the deep dad we were meant to connect and care for each other
That is our mission
And that is not my opinion that is the truth in the world that has sold us fiction please listen
labels only distort our vision which is why half of those watching this will dismiss it or feel resistance and conflicted with
Just remember
So did the caterpillar?
Before it broke through its shell and became the magnificent butterfly well these labels are our shells, and we must do the same thing
So we [can] finally spread our wings human beings
We're not meant to be slapped with labels like groceries [in] supermarkets
Dna cannot be
Regulated by the Fda we were meant to be free and only until we remove them all and stop living and thinking so small
[will] we be free?
To see [ourselves] and each other for [who] we truly are
So what can we do in the face [of] all this madness and Chaos what is the solution?
We can love trying to control the mind is like trying to flatten out water you just make more waves