Boonaa Mohammed - We Are Home lyrics

I've been known for telling white people to
Go back to where they come from
'Cause everybody come from some place
And at some point they may
Not have felt welcome
My family came with a suitcase
Of hopes and dreams
That one day I could be someone
And it is my God-given right to excel
So step aside
Otherwise you will get trumped on

I come from a people who
Have survived generations of oppression
Chanting 'Oromia will be free' with our
Hands chained to symbolize our situation
But it feels like everywhere I go
I am the enemy to every nation
Everybody telling me to go back home
But my home was colonized by foreign invaders
Now I’m walking in the desert


Like the Jews once did with Moses
Screaming let my people go
While the Pharaoh is unloading
15 rounds in the clip, 1 in the chamber
The angel of death standing by on notice
'Cause Black lives only really matter when
The officer’s gun is loaded

Go back to where you came from
But the slave ships have all left dock
Forgetting African’s first became Americans
Through illegal immigrant at Plymouth's rock
And I wonder if every red
State in the United States
Realizes the red blood that it was built upon
'Cause the Washington Redskins
And Cleveland Indians
Were once the home teams but now they're gone

But don’t upset the white people we
Don’t want them to get uncomfortable
Might revoke our immigration status
And force us to go back to where we're from
But we’re still waiting for them to
Find Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction
'Cause isn’t that why we went to
War and killed a million civilians?
Now they're worried about ISIS but
ISIS is your creation
Just like Osama wasn’t your enemy when
He was fighting the Russians

So don’t believe your TV screens
For them Zionists be selling lies
If all Muslims were terrorists
Fool what make you think you'd still be alive
They say my religion preaches
Violence and because
Of that they want to hurt me
Rip hijabs off our sisters
Because their democracy, it teaches mercy
Gave us freedom of religion
Until religion teaches us to be free
From these man made laws created
By white men of authority

And they don't want me to turn Malcolm
Prefer I preach the word in silence
But MLK stood for nonviolence in the
Same spot that they shot him
Boom, boom is the sound of
Your justice in action
Because your justice is just
Us suffering injustice, it just is
Systematic racism and
Institutionalized infractions
Statistically I have a better chance of being
Just another black life that didn’t matter
And the far right is outright
But it’s all right when you’re all white
Go back to where you came from
Is the slogan they are chanting
But it is God who created this land
And you will return to it notwithstanding

But what would it take for
You to just be please, d with me?
What if I shaved off my beard
And enjoyed your wine and cheese
Changed my name from Mohammed to
Moe or Bob or Steve
Would you be less threatened if
I abandoned my faith entirely
What if I bleached my skin lighter
By just a few degrees?
Got tough on immigration and
Western foreign policy
Condemned those muslamicalist nations for
Their barbaric tendencies
And excused white domestic terrorists as
Just a few bad seeds

But, I don’t want to go
Back to where I’m from
'Cause where I’m from is here
And my resilience is brilliant
A living example of all your fears
God blessed in finesse from every
Skin cell to cuticle
Muslim, Black, intelligent and hot damn
I’m beautiful
So wake up world, because the future is here
Unapologetically being me from
Now until infinity
And my people are here to stay
That’s a promise you can count on
And if you don’t like it
Then you can go back to where you come from