Carta a Mãe África

It is necessary to have firm feet on the ground
Feel the forces coming from the skies, from the mission
From the breasts of Mother Africa and the heart
It's time to write between reason and emotion
Mother! Here we grew up malnourished of love
The distance from you, the painful whip of the overseer
Made us something never imaginable, unpredictable
And this brought us a horrible discomfort
The locks, the chains, the prison of the body before
Evolved into the prison of the mind now
Being black is trendy, right? But only visually
Continues rare social ascension
Everything the same, just in a different way
The trickery changed its face, continues with impunity
The slave quarters are the waiting rooms of the police stations
Corridors crowded with your sons and daughters
Hmm! True islands, great shipwrecks
The false abolition caused great damage
Made them believe in reverse racism
In a scenario of seasons heading towards Calvary
White heroes, destroyers of quilombos
Dream usurpers, continue to reign
Even separated from you by the Atlantic
My path is your romantic chants
Mother! I imagine myself torn from your arms
That didn't see me born, nor my first steps
The sketch! It's what I have in mind of your face
Here they talk very little about you
And I think... What was the mistake made?
Why did they do this to us?
The plan is clear... It's our disappearance
What do the supporters, the visionaries of this want
That's the question
Most of the population has ghetto phobia
An anomaly without vaccination
And the worst, the sad realization
Many brothers sponsor the villain
In various opportunistic ways, without realizing
For food, hunger and thirst for power
And what they least want to be and seem
Someone who visually reminds you, why

The cheapest meat in the market is black
The most marked meat by the State is black
The cheapest meat in the market is black
The most marked meat by the State is black

The cheapest meat in the market is black
The most marked meat by the State is black
The cheapest meat in the market is black
The most marked meat by the State is black

The shots heard here come from all sides
But one cannot continue crouched
It's by instinct that I raise the Bantu-Nagô blood
And amidst the bombardment
I still recognize who I am, and I go
Even wounded, to the front, to combat
And amidst the smoke, I continue without any disguise
Because my face reveals to the world what I want
To return to Africa, live my days without a suit
Eternal! It's the current time, of morals
On the mural they sell a racial democracy
And blacks, negroes, Afro descendants
Have become obedient, Afro convenient
In the newspapers, interviews from magazines
Some of us, when they expose their points of view
Try to be peaceful, cordial, loving
And I think how the days have been painful
And resentful, malicious many are
When we talk about minimal reparation
Affirmative actions, inclusion, quotas?
The oppressor threatens to re-boot his boots
They plunged us into a great confusion
Racism doesn't exist, it's a social exclusion
But I know how to differentiate well
I suffer for the color, for the boss and the standard
And miscegenation, a controversial topic in the ghetto
Relation of the white, the Indian with the black
Factor that further delayed self-esteem
-Has straight hair, but look at the girl's nose
The mirror in the favela after the soap opera is the divan
Where the partners dream of being a heartthrob
Where the girl travels
Wants to be an actress instead of a prostitute
Where tears flow like in a fountain
Who says! That this people was once united
And that a plan brought him to an unknown place
Today loved (Ah! Very loved), it's been over five hundred years
We created our bonds, rewrote dreams
Mother! I am the fruit of your blood, of your entrails
The system marked me, but it doesn't gather me
The predator was wrong when he thought that love stops
I love and am loved in exile by Dona Sebastiana

The cheapest meat in the market is black
The most marked meat by the State is black
The cheapest meat in the market is black
The most marked meat by the State is black

The cheapest meat in the market is black
The most marked meat by the State is black
The cheapest meat in the market is black
The most marked meat by the State is black