All Black Everything~Lupe Fiasco

So, I really enjoyed the presentations on thursday because they brought up a lot of ideas with new insights that I had never thought about or in the case of the teaching group, they showed something that I had never before understood. The music group in particular was really interesting and they also reminded me of one of my favorite singers by the name of Lupe Fiasco who is also a black artist. The difference though is that he is in the prime of his career right now and released a new album just last month. One of the songs on this new album has a lot to do with what we have been discussing in class because it goes through what may have happened if black people were never enslaved and racism were non-existant. I like all of the ideas that it brings together, because it also seems to challenge the listener to ask themselves, "Why can' t it be like this?" I have included the lyrics below so that you guys and read them and hopefully enjoy them as much as I did. I also have a link so you can listen to the song if you like. All Black Everything Hook-You would never know/ If you could ever be/ If you never try / You would never see/ Stayed in Africa / We ain't never leave/ So there were no slaves in our history/ Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn't he/ See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything / Verse 1~Uh, and we ain't get exploited/ White man ain't feared so he did not destroy it /We ain't work for free, so they had to employ it /Built it up together so we equally appointed /First 400 years, see we actually enjoyed it /Constitution written by the W.E.B. Du Bois /Were no reconstructions, /Civil War got avoided /Little black sambo grows up to be a lawyer /Extra extra on the news stands /Black woman voted head of Ku Klux Klan/ Malcolm Little dies as a old man /Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him /Followed by Bill O'reailly who read from the Quran/ President Bush sends condolences from Iran /Where FOX News reports live/ That Ahmadinejad wins Mandela peace prize/ hook /Verse 2~Uh, and it ain't no projects /Keepin it real is not an understood concept /Yea, complexion's not a contest /Cause racism has no context/ Hip hop ain't got a section called conscious /Everybody rappin' like crack never happened /Crips never occured no Bloods to attack them /Matter of fact no hood to attack in /Somalia is a great place to relax in/ Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin /The Rat Pack was a cool group of black men /That inspired five white guys called the Jacksons /Eminem fitted in but then again he ispired a black rapper tryin to mimic him/ And that's what really rose up out of michigan, the sign of white rapper by the name of 50 Cent,/ hook /Verse 3~Uh, and I know it's just a fantasy/ I cordially invite you to ask why can't it be? /Now we can do nothing bout the past /But we can do something about the future that we have /We can make fast or we can make it last /Every woman Queenin' and every man a Kingin' /When those color lines come we can't see between /We just close our eyes 'til it's all black everything/ hook. The link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71McnVwWPwU