Quadro Negro

I woke up from a long sleep, the intense light almost blinds me
It's necessary to reveal what is denied
If life is a school, every school has its blackboard
Blackboard, square format
On it, I rewrite my story, make a diary
In my blacklist, there are only revolutionaries
Warrior Marias from the outskirts, you have to see
The warriors of the past and the current ones from MST
The homosexuals who resist with dignity
Creoles and indigenous people who enter universities
If dark is ugly, my poetry is filthy
From the darkest clouds falls clear and fertile water
And speaking of water, it comes to mind
The blackboard actually has the color of hope
Let a storm fall without asking for permission
And make these old beliefs collapse
Stupid visions, spread throughout the world
That associated the color black with everything that is filthy
The black discriminates against the black themselves
If the one you point to as black doesn't see themselves that way
They grew up learning that being black is ugly
If it's all bad, who wants to be in the middle?
Who wrote the history of black people in this country?
Just look at the color of the chalk
The Pharaohs of Egypt today mummified
If they removed their bandages, could they be resurrected?
Would you know the color of their skin without mistake?
Want a hint: Egypt is an African country
It's no use knowing that race doesn't exist
If the concept prevails and represents a threat
Hip-hop doesn't deny miscegenation, however
It knows that it didn't bring equality to anyone
Do you see what the racist legacy offered?
If there was slavery among Africans before the Europeans
It was with a different meaning than what was seen
They weren't sold, it didn't have a mercantile character
The tribes warred, the losing group assumed
Surrender out of honor, out of custom
If there's a color of sin, it arrived quietly
Spreading discord and ambition along the way
Its science and religion said calmly
It's inferior! You can enslave because it has no soul
The color of peace committed a holocaust against the Jews
Barbarism in the Inquisition in the name of God
In the Americas, indigenous people were decimated
But those who survived are creating a new picture

If the test gives white in memory
Let's blacken your mind with our history
The sunlight dazzles the vision
And the beauty of the moon is only possible with darkness

The fight for quotas doesn't cancel the fight for improvement
In public education quality, you ignore
On the contrary, the more black people in academia
Much more strength to fight for a new day
Racism, what surprises me the most
It's not seen as a white people's problem
But among them, there are those who fight for its end
"oh if every white person were like that"
Whiteness, little is heard about
What explains the privilege that your ethnicity can achieve?
For those born with a silver spoon, it's hard to understand
That it's not just because your parents deserved it
There were years of exploitation in the past so that one day
Society would be structured in favor of a minority
There are those who don't admit quotas judging them unfair
Others judging them as handouts, all of this scares me
I ask how much it costs to overcome the mistake?
How much does it cost to ignore human rights?
Many beautiful things are guaranteed by the Constitution
If forgotten or ignored, it needs affirmation
Blacks and whites are equal, so what? If the norm
Even in the cemetery, they are not treated the same
Now understand what affirmative actions are
Specific measures, alternatives
Temporary measures that come to affirm
To society, that there are inequalities to repair
Of those living below the poverty line
70% are black, how beautiful!
Of the total Brazilian university students
97% are white and heirs
Of a policy that sponsored whitening the race
The arrival of 4 million foreigners, time passes!
All this, in 30 years brother
Was what was brought of blacks, in 3 centuries of slavery
Sponsorship with public resources, the negative
For freed slaves, no kind of incentive
They killed us, exploited us and then left us alone
Without a job, home, food, just said: go, fly!
Without wings and those who survived are on the edge
Crowded in the slums all over the country
How many whites live there? You can count on your fingers
Now understand why quotas for blacks

Chorus

I want dolls, angels, black presenters
Entrepreneurs, judges, models, black doctors
If wanting is a facet
I want, desire, a black elite

One thing is to ask, another is to conquer respect
The fruit of a conquest is called a right
Look at my color, look at our struggle
Neither alms nor favor, the dispute is unequal
Between those who always had the privilege of studying
With quality education in private schools
And wanting to compare with public education and the situation
Tele-classes, acceleration
Entrance exam for public university, the scheme is rare
With quotas or not, only those who are prepared enter
It won't be the quotas that will have the privilege of inaugurating
The presence of educated students to beg
The entrance exam for private schools took the lead, was faster
Often, all you need is money
Those who compete through quotas will face it legally
With huge but not unfair competition
Unfair is the condition that the young black person faces
A Volkswagen for him, a Ferrari for those with fair skin
Competing with the same rules, malice
That's what they call equality
Funny these people of aesthetics
Having too much education has never been a sign of ethics
Is it really the supposed intellectual elevation
That will guarantee the training of a good professional?
Don't underestimate the intelligence of the excluded of this millennium
The crime college only has geniuses
The elite is the one who decides at the national level
If our intelligence will be used for good or for evil
So long seeking debate, no one cared
The tolerance quota of my people has run out
The Simple Rap´ortagem reveals to Brazil
With quotas or not, the entrance exam is a funnel
With quotas or not, the entrance exam is a sieve
Those who compete through quotas but are not good will be tripped
May the best win... it's almost hilarious
The test is the same, the competitors are many
Who affirmed, how to prove if they are black or not?
Once and for all to resolve the issue
The PM's baton has an elite device
It never misses who is black, believe!

Chorus

Be careful when someone incites you
To go to a show where there are only beautiful people
Always look with reservations, for me what matters
Is to know what kind of beautiful people they are
Analyze the terms left for us
Between brown and mulatto, which is more indecent?
Which is less harmful?
To have the identity of a mule or a sparrow
But wait, see that teasing
Isn't a sparrow that bird that has no race?
That wanders through the squares, they say without value
A bird without a vocation for singing
Mongrel, the mule is an animal
Cheap labor, sterile, irrational
Only serves for work but not for producing
And hey buddy, do you really fit here?
Neither brown nor mulatto, I define myself politically
I'm black, or if you prefer Afro-descendant
Careful, I'm in sheep's clothing
The kind that kicks, Afro-Brazilian
Should be executed with a bazooka shot
The creator of the character "crazy black woman"
Am I too serious? Don't worry
I inherited from my people the talent to contradict
Contradicting, you will see me smiling
But hip-hop surpassed the discourse of "black is beautiful!"
Who is interested? I say to those who thought
That I would be just another one with a vocation for the drum
If respect is good, don't take it the wrong way
Here is an entrepreneur, a pedagogue, and a social scientist
From the Federal University of Bahia
Detail, who would have thought, in the land of "it's just joy!"
If denigrating is making black brother
Let's denigrate the communication college
Law, medicine, and much more
Let's denigrate the official organs

Chorus

The headline of Simple Rap´ortagem shows
A new blackboard is rising
There is much to be told about our ancestors
Don't let it pass in vain, it's our task, lad
Pay attention, there is much to be done
The important thing, man, is to do it our way

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BAIANO HIP-HOP www.simplesrap.com