Jasiri X, Rhymefest - Who's Illegal? lyrics

Who been illegal ever since they landed?
Who moved out the natives
And left them stranded?
Who stole Africans from across the Atlantic?
Who auctioned, branded
And labeled the "savage"?
Who wanted to expand into Mexican land?
And pulled guns and grabbed it?
It wasn't democratic
What would they owe if we added the damage?
Now they say that you're illegal
Just because you speak Spanish

When you landed on plymouth rock
Did you have your papers?
When you was dying from sickness
Did you ask for favors?
When all you could grow is strictly
Crops did you ask your neighbors?
Did they teach how to survive
Make sure you had the basics?
But not glad and gracious
What you had was hatred
One of they land to take it
Cause you planned to rape it
Thankless, would you call a man a racist
Who would give women and
Children smallpox and blankets
They make it like someone else is illegal
With a nation of 40 million stolen people
And won't apologize for what you know is evil
If you mention immigrants then
You both are equal
But all a sudden if you Mexican
You worse than the others
And it don't matter they was here
When it first was "discovered"
Now that's more disrespectful than
Cursing your mother
The land of the free unless
You a person of color america

Mexican means mestizos
Mestizos means mixed blood
Mixed with the Native Americans this
Is where they stood
The third root was the African
It was all good you ain't cross the border
The border's up in y'all hood
But history is insignificant to ignorance
Cause in a sense Barrack Obama's
Daddy was an immigrant
If he could be the president then
You should be a resident
And Jan Brewer's too prejudiced
They're us where officers making
Laws to topple us
While we're at it let's send
Schwarzenegger back to Austria
Arnold, where's your papers?
(I'll be back with them)
Imagine white Canadians with
Policemen harassing 'em
My aliens Benito Juarez smooth like
Fighting for farmworkers I'm Cesar Chavez
Border Patrol trying to keep us on edge
But now we standing up black, red, and brown
They can never break the family up