Heritage of Arrogance

I grew up on Thomas Fight It was lined with rebel flags Mom and dad tried to teach me wrong from right But their compasses were bad I saw the Klan once with a child's eyes Down the street where I would play And angry Black people on the other side of the road With clenched fists raised Two sides of a coin, the Klan and the APC That's the kind of bullshit our daddies said to you and me But I've been listening Trying to keep myself from dismissing Perspectives that I struggle to relate with And I'vе been learning our true history and I hate it Two sidеs of a coin implies there ain't no better side It says racism and justice are equally justified And I know I didn't ask to be born white Wasn't taught the world was so goddamn unjust But it's on us To make it right Well, I got saved at the Baptist Church When I said the sinner's prayer Went to service with mama And they's only white people there I saw Rodney King on the TV screen turn slowly into Trayvon I heard my parents make excuses For the man who fired the gun Two sides of a coin Jesus Christ and white supremacy Looking back It don't make any sense to me But I've been listening Trying to keep myself from dismissing Perspectives that I struggle to relate with And I've been learning our true history and I hate it And two sides of a coin Implies there ain't no better side Says racism and justice are equally justified I mean, I never worked the auction block Or joined the Christian Knights Never called someone a racial epithet at a traffic light And I know we never asked to be born white We were not taught the world was so goddamn unjust But it's on us To make it right Our inheritance Is a heritage Of arrogance and unchecked oppression We can dismantle this If you can stand with us Siblings, our daddies Never understood this lesson And I swear that I don't mean that as a slight They were not taught the world was so goddamn unjust But it's on us To make it right