"Distant Relatives"

A few killer Nas lines

"My history is that I'm from the land of the theives." in America

"It's a journey, some will get left behind
'cause in life you can not press rewind
Get it right, you only have one first chance
To make one first impression that lasts a lifetime" in Strong Will Continue

"From the mouth, I could spit out a razor." in Nah Mean

Everyone knows that everyone was once Black and everyone is from Africa. Yet in our recent humanity, the most beautiful people who gave birth to the rest of us, some who now have blonde hair and blue eyes, have become the most hated, exploited, and discriminated against people on this globe.

In Nas and Damian Marley's album, "Distant Relatives", they sing/write/rap about how we're all distant relatives yet we're not united and we treat each other like shit. The case with Arizona and Texas in 2010 is shocking to say the least... and what's more shocking is that people don't find it shocking. People don't believe that others deserve human rights and proper human acknowledgement simply because they look different. And people don't see that without immigrants and the hard work of immigrants, America is nothing, and white Americans wouldn't have anything... yet there's a sense of entitlement, defensiveness, and fear about what "white people own" and what "white people deserve."

The slave trade IS one of the biggest wrongs in human history and it shouldn't be made PC and ok in history books. A people's voice and history should not be erased. Continuous white greed has to be acknowledged in order for history not to repeat itself, the way it is even today with negative images of all people of color portrayed throughout America so much so that people of color start to believe in their own limitations.

From Africa Must Wake Up "The Black Oasis, Ancient Africa the Sacred, Awaken, The Sleeping Giant, Science, Art is your creation."

Art, science, religion, everything came from Africa. And the descendents spread throughout the world and made more beautiful inventions and made all beautiful people of all shades and strengths and views. But if the human race is a family, why is it that an individualistic view has completely taken over and made one shade more "worthy", "wealthy", and "entitled" to anything? Why is it that they fear and have grudges against their own brothers and sisters? It's weird to me because it's everywhere, in Viet Nam, in Maine, in Texas, in the homes of people of color even. This is not progressive, this is going backwards.