We Are Home

I've been known for telling white people to go back to where they come from
'Cause everybody come from some place,
And at some point they may not have felt welcome
My family came with a suitcase of hopes and dreams,
That one day I could be someone
and it is my God-given right to excel,
So step aside, otherwise you will get trumped on

I come from a people who have survived generations of oppression
Chanting 'Oromia will be free' with our hands chained to symbolize our situation
But it feels like everywhere I go, I am the enemy to every nation
Everybody telling me to go back home,
But my home was colonized by foreign invaders
Now I’m walking in the desert, like the Jews once did with Moses
Screaming let my people go, while the Pharaoh is unloading
15 rounds in the clip, 1 in the chamber, the angel of death standing by on notice
'Cause Black lives only really matter when the officer’s gun is loaded

Go back to where you came from, but the slave ships have all left dock
Forgetting African’s first became Americans,
Through illegal immigrant at Plymouth's rock
And I wonder if every red state in the United States,
Realizes the red blood that it was built upon
'Cause the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians,
Were once the home teams but now they're gone

But don’t upset the white people; we don’t want them to get uncomfortable
Might revoke our immigration status,
And force us to go back to where we're from
But we’re still waiting for them to find Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction
'Cause isn’t that why we went to war and killed a million civilians?
Now they're worried about ISIS but ISIS is your creation
Just like Osama wasn’t your enemy when he was fighting the Russians

So don’t believe your TV screens, for them Zionists be selling lies
If all Muslims were terrorists, fool what make you think you'd still be alive
They say my religion preaches violence and because of that they want to hurt me
Rip hijabs off our sisters because their democracy, it teaches mercy
Gave us freedom of religion, until religion teaches us to be free
From these man made laws created by white men of authority

And they don't want me to turn Malcolm, prefer I preach the word in silence
But MLK stood for nonviolence in the same spot that they shot him
Boom, boom is the sound of your justice in action
Because your justice is just us suffering injustice, it just is
Systematic racism and institutionalized infractions
Statistically I have a better chance of being just another black life that didn’t matter
And the far right is outright
But it’s all right when you’re all white
Go back to where you came from is the slogan they are chanting
But it is God who created this land, and you will return to it notwithstanding

But what would it take for you to just be pleased with me?
What if I shaved off my beard and enjoyed your wine and cheese
Changed my name from Mohammed to Moe or Bob or Steve
Would you be less threatened if I abandoned my faith entirely
What if I bleached my skin lighter by just a few degrees?
Got tough on immigration and western foreign policy
Condemned those muslamicalist nations for their barbaric tendencies
And excused white domestic terrorists as just a few bad seeds

But I don’t want to go back to where I’m from
'Cause where I’m from is here,
And my resilience is brilliant, a living example of all your fears
God blessed in finesse from every skin cell to cuticle
Muslim, Black, intelligent and hot damn, I’m beautiful
So wake up world, because the future is here
Unapologetically being me from now until infinity
And my people are here to stay, that’s a promise you can count on
And if you don’t like it, then you can go back to where you come from