Miles Hodges - 15 Cracka-n***a Thoughts On A Wednsday lyrics

1. Sometimes I feel like writing about race is sad and pointless. What do you possibly got to say. It's deeper than any speech. It's sharper than any King's dream and heavier than the weight on Martin's great-great grandfathers grave. It's bolder than the boldest and weaker than the weakest of Mandela's steps. It is sterner than the firm of Biko's grip and windier than the rooted caverns of Lena Horne's hips. Most times I just say “White-boy to the brothas. Half-n***a to the white folks” and call it a day. 2. I was raised by a black father. That in itself is luckier than most. 3. I was raised by a white mother. She has curly blond hair and a continental smile. She is the only person I know who has actually listened to me when I was talking without thinking something to themselves during it. Her skin breathes. She is one thousand unicorns even when she whispers and I am jealous of my father. She is the most beautiful woman in the world. 4. I have never slept with a white girl. Never even kissed a blonde, including high school and all those drunken college club nights. 5. I'm not sure why number four is true. Maybe its because you can't ride dick without a culture behind you. 6. Free Mumia. 7. My father told me a story this morning over coffee before work. He said during the night shifts up in South Boston, at the ER he was training in through his medical residency, folks would roll in with double-digit stab wounds—blood seeping from their pores like Venice in the rain—and scream at him like “DON'T LET THAT ni**er DOCTOR TOUCH ME. DON'T LET HIM FIX ME!!!!” 8. I have slavemaster blood in my veins. I don't get f**ed with in the hood because people think I'm a cop. My grandfather was a Black Panther and he's going to die soon. 9. A lot of my friends write poems about blackness but didn't go to the Trayvon Martin rally. It s**s. 10. RIP (him and all his company) 11. For the ones that did go to the rally, I felt their stomachs clench a slight clench at the notion of all the white faces in the crowd. This is because there is something selfish about pain. It happens and it hurts, and we want to keep that hurt to ourselves for us and only us to claim revenge for. 40 acres and a mule, on our terms. 12. White guilt exists, as it should. But every white person is not guilty. Black people cannot be racist. They can be counter-productive. 13. This is polarizing but I'm still not sure we've had our first black President. 14. f** Don Imus regardless. 15. I am not gray and I am not beige. My skin is the color of my fathers love, and that love has been/will always be my single reason for living. That has nothing to do with race. Tis all. Carry on…