Lavar Bullard - Maangamizi lyrics

[Hook] x2 How many lives have we lost to the Maangamizi It's way bigger than the pain that I place on the CD If I told you all the truth would you really believe me? It's the Maangamizi, It's the Maangamizi [Verse 1] Maangamizi, meaning African hellacaust Because we paid a hell of a cost And don't really know what was lost And the process ain't ever stopped Since black civilization dropped Through internal greed and external plot Same ones that taught the Ancient Greeks Greece and Rome helped to bring to their knees Then Islam spread across Northern Africa With slavery and ma**acres Too many hurt, refused to convert Spread South and West and people dispersed Christianity is not alone in using Race and religion for power to expand Desert caravans took slaves across Sand Where they staged a revolt of the Zanj Enemies always invented mythologies Curse of ham, so-called prophecy After the migration There was some reinstatement of autonomous nations Then floating on the waves of the seas Came a plague, a genocidal disease With arms and heads, they looked like men Really they were just dogs on two legs When they first came some of our people said "Go!" Most welcomed them into our homes We didn't know they had hearts of stone Frozen by Western Europe's cold Also, there were scumbags among us Willing to work for white conquerors honours And with that collaboration Began the largest forced migration In the history of nations [Hook] x2 [Verse 2] How many millions dead at the bottom of the ocean? Thrown overboard like property stolen Or jumped overboard rather than be sold on A mother with her baby in arms, hold on What awaited was not just enslavement But a genocidal impulse craving They committed unspeakable abuses To make a n***a from an African human Took a woman ready to give birth Tied her limbs to four posts held firm In a main square made every slave watch Covered her in raw meat Let off a pack of dogs If anyone watching, even a relative Made a sound, k** them for the hell of it This was every day, not the exception The science of gynaecology was perfected On black women, no anaesthetic They said a n***a b**h couldn't feel pain, pathetic Hang a man from a tree cut off his penis Force people to eat their own faeces Put people in zoos, in a cage Chimpanzee, black human, ape And it was upon this here atrocity Europe became the dominant economy Now they play games, pretend it's about names It's a scheme for unequal trade Imagine the largest companies today If all of their employees got no pay For all of the centuries profit was made Black skin was always branded slave Even the child of the masters rape Could be k**ed or sold because black blood in her veins But the ancestors fought back, got free Probably have not heard of Jean-Jacque Dessalines Probably don't know the Haitian revolution Caused the French to sell half of America Nor know the role that Africans played In the Civil War for that same America If you ain't heard of Nanny of the Maroons or Bogle You probably believe what they told you But if they set Africans free Because all of a sudden they grow a conscience Tell me this Why were the slave masters given compensation And those that suffered not given a thing? Why did they then invade Africa? And make Africans slaves in their home? With the Belgians k**ing 10 million Souls in the Congo alone Why then Jim Crow Why Apartheid? Why did Black Wall Street burn that night? Why collaborators will work for such evil Willing to be tools against their own people? Why Africom? Imperialism for the new age But with a brown face on it That's right imperialism for the new age But with a brown face on it [Hook] x2 [Verse 3] Some will try their best to justify this torture By asking you who the slaves were brought from As if we do not know, tell them "Get the hell out Every genocide ever has had sell outs" And the largest wars of humans Were fought between the people of Western Europe So by your rationale it's cool to k** Frenchman They k**ed Germans that look like them Absurd right? But when your skin is white Different set of rules you can abide by Dark suffering is not humanized No surprise, we still see ourselves through their eyes Darkies became legally human During the course of our parents life And the freedoms we have only occurred Cos our ancestors spilled their blood to the earth They changed that much? Are you so sure? The world's darker people still the most poor? So it's our task to put an end to this Even those like me with our heritage mixed If a knife is in your back 9 inches And it's only been pulled out six When the wound starts healing And we stop bleeding and bleaching Can it begin to fix? When the plague of self hate Is no longer a weight so great Push you to k** one another When we put a stop to false charity That gives with one hand and bombs with the other When the IMF and World Bank, along with their puppets No longer strangle our nations When the invaders don't have military bases In so many places When the jail cells are not packed with black backs And the gats and the crack are no longer factors When we celebrate true self-determination Not a few token bit part actors When the truth is told and there is The dignity to remember the dead Because as long as they are distorting the past It means they have the intention of doing it again [Hook] x2