Redemption, Ltr. 44
US by Ice Cube

I know the truth is gonna hurt because a lot of blacks don't even know what it means to be black, as a lot of people just think walking, talking, and acting like they black, makes them black. But when it comes to knowing about our black history and culture, they don't know nothing and get upset that I'm putting them on blast for not wanting to know they own black history and culture, by saying our past of everything don't mean nothing, as they have been brainwashed by this AmeriKKKan system that they would like to stay ignorant of the truth and continue to call each other the "n" word and to wonder around in the dark.

Once us Afrikans was brought over here in chains to be slaves, they changed our food diet from eating good to forcing us to eat pork. That is only an AmeriKKKan thing, because ain't no filthy pigs gonna survive in the jungles of Afrika. And us Afrikans ate goat and other known beef. But us blacks didn't know nothing about pigs until the Europeans gave us the most filthiest animal on the earth to eat. Slaves cooked every morsel of the pig to survive, and the Europeans ate beef, lamb, chicken, and turkey, profiting off our slaves work.

The majority of our confusion is a condition and mentality we all have passed down to our people because, on both a conscious and subconscious level, us black people don't talk or discuss our problems.

That 500 years of slavery, many black women raped by white men to have mullato kids is detrimental to our existence. Not being taught they history and culture because us blacks was sold away from all our families. Many women raped by white men who denied fathering racially mixed kids. By saying our Afrikan languages were illegal to speak. Reading and writing was illegal to learn. All our Afrikan ceremonies, beliefs, and values were illegal to worship and practice.

Many of our people have no true desire to learn our history because our Afrikan history has been misunderstood, misrepresented, and poorly handled by both black and white people in AmeriKKKa. We get into interracial relationships, only to have confused mullato kids who are ignorant about they identity. In only believing stereotypes of us blacks, we make them think, walk, talk, and act like us blacks. Make them black.

When they scared to talk or discuss our history because too many parents in interracial relationships, have no idea how wrong they is, keeping secrets, not teaching our kids about what's up. Because of failing skool systems, only teaching them white history, they are unaware that the silence teaches nothing.

So quit acting ghetto, making us look bad.