Captured once upon a time
Arrested, caged and tortured without a crime
Our lives meant nothing, we were monitored
Slaves servants we were used
To great depths we were abused
Like an orange sucked, thrown away
Like a cashew sucked, thrown away
We were used and thrown away
We were worked and taken for granted
Our name was dragged in the mud
Time came our senses opened
Enough of chains and shackles
We came back for our countries
We stand and get our boundaries
Refusing to be ruled by adversaries
Back in our homeland
No longer are we scared to say
How to think or understand
But we speak to ourselves today
We train our children with our hands
They learn our tongue and not theirs
They survived on our meals not theirs
They believe in our father land
Though they call us ‘blacks’
We are proud of our acts
Not ashamed of who we are
Black, not to heart or brain
Treated us with disdain
We forgave all the pain
Bittered but not broken
Forever we are strong and awaken
We go for our voices
We are not hindered or restricted
Either by time or location
Everywhere we represent our nation
We are who we are indeed
No matter what they take us to be
We embrace love, justice and fairness
So we love and treat each man equally
We get the best training from our mothers
We get beaten, refined by our mothers
Still we refuse to be broken
We came out beautiful and strong
Got it the legacy from our fathers
They passed on generations without letter
We built lives upon lives as leaders
We are born great leaders
We choose to believe what we believe
We are not silent but radical
We choose to obey what we obey
We are not stupid but logical
We fix and mend broken walls
And walk our way in stormy rainfalls
We are good at what we do
We respect and obey our elders
Blessings drop on us like dew
We have kings over us
We believe in order
We are not brought down
Neither are we broken
We are who we are