Tom MacDonald - WHITEBOY lyrics

I cannot feel guilty for shit
That I didn't do
But I can understand the reasons why
You think that I should
Yeah, I'm white but I never put
Your neck in no noose
And I never burnt a cross or
Hid my face with a hood
You can't just label me racist
'cause I'm related to people
Who did some terrible shit way
Back before I was alive
My parents brought me up to
Treat everyone as an equal
I refuse to feel ashamed 'cause
Of my pretty blue eyes
Fuck a Nazi, fuck a white supremacist
Fuck anyone who labels me as that
Because of my family genetics
The hatred for Caucasians is
So fuckin' pathetic
Go be proud that you're black
But don't hate me for some credit
I'm not the white Devil, neo Nazi
Cop tryna pull the trigger
You can call me what you want
But I'd still never say
The white race as a whole ain't the enemy
There's racist white people but we're
Far from that collectively

White boy, don't say that
White boy, oh, you so bad
White boy, you wish you were black
White boy, dear white boy
White boy, white noise
Sayin' shit I can't say with my white voice
White boys, white lies
Don't tell me how to see
It through my white eyes

If a black man is sippin' on
Some Cognac sittin' next to me
I don't assume that every black's
Favorite drink is Hennessy
I don't dislike Tanesha 'cause her
First name isn't Stephanie
Not only is that wrong
It's a fuckin' waste of energy
Ivory or ebony, forty-five or seventeen
We all bleed the same
Martin Luther King or Kennedy
They're angry I'm recitin' the facts
"He's white and he raps
He stole the culture right from the blacks
Okay, he's fire but we lit the flame
He's siphoning gas
So fuck this corny little honky, man
The whitey is wack"
You lettin' history perpetuate
The hatred within
And then you paint me with the
Brush you painted slave owners with, yeah

White boy, don't say that
White boy, oh, you so bad
White boy, you wish you were black
White boy, dear white boy
White boy, white noise
Sayin' shit I can't say with my white voice
White boys, white lies
Don't tell me how to see
It through my white eyes

I got a mother, a father
A sister, an auntie, and uncle
And a grandma that I picture
When you're openly hatin'
And God willin' one day I'll have
A kid of my own
I refuse to let you blindly hate
My wife or my baby
So go ahead and hate the racists
I pray for their extinction
If you wanna hate the white people
Just make a distinction
Between the ones who want the
Best for everyone regardless
And the ones who built the system
Just to smother you with hardship
So stop before you say it
I know what you been thinkin'
How's a straight white male in 2018 bitchin'?
You're makin' me the villain
By demonizin' my race
For things I didn't do and
Decisions I didn't make
No one that I call a friend
Has ever owned a slave
And neither did our dads, or our dad's dads
Fuck sakes acknowledging atrocities were
Wrongly committed is all that I can offer
When I'm wrongly convicted

I would never hate a man for
What God gave him in pigments
And I would never plot against him
Just because he is different
I would never judge a human for
The cards he was given
Or call him lesser than myself 'cause of
The race that he's mixed with
White people that you hate aren't
Your neighbors or lawyers
They're the Rockefellers
Rothschilds, Bushes, and royals
They're the people who monopolize
The water and oil
And injected your communities with
Drugs so they spoiled
Got no patience for Nazis
I think they're better off dead
They're fightin' hatred with hatred makin'
The hate more intense
I don't want nothin' to do with
Either side of the fence
So don't blindly attack me for
Wearin' braids on my head
Hate the people who believe you
Put yourselves in the ghetto
Hate the ones who teach they children you
Ain't shit 'cause they said so
Hate the ones who think you're all
The same and judge you profusely
'Cause the way that you're portrayed on
Our news and in movies

Bein' white and bein' racist
Aren't the same, man, i promise
Know it's hard to tell the difference
If I'm just bein' honest
I deserve the chance to show you
I'm not part of the problem
And you owe it to yourselves
We got so much in common

White boy, don't say that
White boy, oh, you so bad
White boy, you wish you were black
White boy, dear white boy
White boy, white noise
Sayin' shit I can't say with my white voice
White boys, white lies
Don't tell me how to see
It through my white eyes

White boy, don't say that
White boy, oh, you so bad
White boy, you wish you were black
White boy, dear white boy