Trust issues

We do not trust our government

We do not trust our politicians

We do not trust our parliamentarians

We do not trust our professionals

We do not trust our fellow Blacks

We do not trust our Caribbean brothers and sisters, oh no!

We do not trust even our pastors

We do not trust our neighbors

We do not trust our children

We do not trust ourselves

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But, oh yes, we trust massa

We trust him with all our heart and soul

We trust him to save us

we trust him to rule us

We trust him to run our affairs

We trust him because he is not one of us

We trust him because he’s not corrupt

We trust him because he’ll take care of us

Like he has done for centuries

Milking our sweat, reaping our salt

Drinking our blood in champagne glasses

We will never leave him nor forsake him

We will never give him up nor betray him

We forgive him for 400 years of rape

400 years of brutality and dehumanization

400 years of erasure and oppression

All of that is in the past

though he rides on a carriage of stolen gold with our ancestors still chained to its doors

All of that is buried in the past

why rattle the bones of gory ghosts

No need for Reparations-

Who wants a check for centuries of unpaid labor when we can get a loan with indecent conditions

Who needs independence when we can remain subjects of people who fought 80 years for their own independence

Massa can plunder but tis we fault we poor

Massa has been supervising we financially

Bet tis we fault we drowning in debt to him

We tell our children not to come back home ‘causin’ it ain’t got nothing here for them

Bet we fume and rage because foreigners filling the positions that should go to them

How did we get so?

What made us hate ourselves so?

Let us pray to their green god

becausin’ in him we all trust.

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