K-Rino, Minister Robert Muhammad - We Don't Expect lyrics

Fifteen generations born, raise, die
Born, raise, die born, raise, die
Into a slave condition but yet we survive

Understand we don't expect you to care
'Cause usually when we get caught
Up it's a dare
Got our whole community lost in
The depths of despair
You even tricked some of us to
Think your methods were fair
We walk around with house shoes on
And nets on our hair
People don't wanna get to know you
And if they let you, it's rare
Hard to reach us even with
A positive message to share
We be like "don't even speak on
My name unless it's a prayer"
And it's so hard
We even feelin' like you prayin' is fraud


'Cause if you hate us
They ain't no tellin' what you sayin' to God
We need to trust in those and our own
And stay on our own
How many hours out of each day
Do we play on our phones
We need attention so bad we
Be on Facebook cheesin'
Tell everybody where we 'bout to go
What time we leavin'
What we eatin', who we want to fight
And who boyfriend cheatin'
But in the streets it ain't no
Friends and police do the deletin'

The blood and the lies
And the tears and the pain
The struggle in our eyes
That the years couldn't tame
Generations done died and still it remains
And it ain't no surprise
That you feel it's a game
So don't blame your evil on me
I know your mad but we ain't blind no more
You want us gone but we ain't gonna leave
We ain't goin' nowhere, never

Understand we don't expect you to care
I'm tellin' my people with no nuts
To get you a pair we suffer blindness
Everything wrong we fall in-line with
Its more important things then who some
Ball player done signed with
Lies told with no appearance of proof
You call the truth hate
'cause you hate hearin' the truth
And Martin Luther King died when
He truly spoke up
They ain't kill him 'cause he had a
Dream it's 'cause he woke up
And if you thinkin' the systems with you
You got life twisted
If I'm the one who put your car on
Flat then why would I fix it?
The ghetto been blitz with
A sick condition systemic
And made ignorance spread faster
Than a damn epidemic
Don't ever imitate or mimic
Nothin' them fools doin'
Quit thinkin' that when they say "we, " that
That includes you
See you won't be shocked at all
By all the killin' and hatin'
When you understand the nature of
The person you facin'

The blood and the lies
And the tears and the pain
The struggle in our eyes
That the years couldn't tame
Generations done died and still it remains
And it ain't no surprise
That you feel it's a game
So don't blame your evil on me
I know your mad but we ain't blind no more
You want us gone but we ain't gonna leave
We ain't goin' nowhere, never

Understand we don't expect you to care
Even as sharecroppers we never
Received our share
They made promises to ex-slaves
While shakin' their hands
And jacked the Indians for
Two-billions acres of land
A truly free person we was never able to be
Why would they ever want to pay
You when the labor was free
We learned after bein' tricked by
A biblical half whip
Now I know that ain't Jesus
That's a picture or Brad Pitt yeah, yeah
Like I said, we don't expect you to care
How could you when you
Deliberately infected the air
You up in court innocent
But they don't pay it no mind
How come your own lawyer tryna
Persuade you to sign
Sympathy for dead blacks
Y'all don't take it that far
You cry harder when a damn dog
Get hit by a car
They ain't gon' ever help you
Remove that horrible scar because unlike us
Them demons know who you really are

When you think about all that we survied
Being put into hulls of ships
And sailing across the Atlantic
And then surviving that
And being auctioned off
Being breeded like animals
Broke family broken up
And then spendin' our lives on a plantation
Listen to me well not for three days
Not for three weeks
Not for three hours, or three months
Or three years but for three hundred years