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Maafa

The Maafa, the African Holocaust, the Holocaust of Enslavement, or the Black Holocaust are political neologisms which have been popularized since 1988 and used to describe the history and ongoing effects of atrocities inflicted upon African people, particularly when committed by non-Africans (specifically by Europeans and Arabs in the context of the history of slavery, including the Trans-Saharan slave trade, the Indian Ocean slave trade and the Atlantic slave trade) which continues to the present day through imperialism, colonialism and other forms of oppression. For example, Maulana Karenga (2001) puts slavery in the broader context of the Maafa, suggesting that its effects exceed mere physical persecution and legal disenfranchisement: the "destruction of h… more »

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Defaulted to benefit
From our enslavement
Generation, after generation
Born at the top
Held up by our backs
And choosing
To turn the other cheek
That's privilege
To Inhabit your skin without fear
To inhabit your body without shame
To love who you want
To walk at night alone
To be standing on the outside looking in
That's privilege
Welfare, welfare
They built an empire
Off your backs, off your backs
Taxing your labor to secure their fortune
With no accountability
Cough up that restitution
Make you pay your debt to
Welfare, welfare
They built an empire
Off your backs, off your backs
Taxing your labor to secure their fortune
With no accountability
Cough up that restitution
Make you pay your debt to me
To navigate the spaces
We're not allowed to roam
Blind to an exclusion
You'll never have to know
Dismantle the whole thing or nothing will change
Because the system was built to protect
Your privilege
Welfare, welfare
They built an empire
Off your backs, off your backs
Taxing your labor to secure their fortune
With no accountability
Cough up that restitution
Make you pay your debt to
Welfare, welfare
They built an empire
Off your backs, off your backs
Taxing your labor to secure their fortune
With no accountability
Cough up that restitution
Make you pay your debt to me
The safety of your fragility is priority
In this war against poor bodies and minorities
In this war against women and the not so binary
In this war against all Black bodies fighting globally
There's no peace, without Justice
Your kids are casualties
From Favela to Palestine
All your mothers weep
From plantation to president
Still the same story
From the classroom to prison cell
Is the new chattel slavery
The new chattel slavery
The new chattel slavery
Welfare, welfare
They built an empire
Off your backs, off your backs
Taxing your labor to secure their fortune
With no accountability
Cough up that restitution
Make you pay your debt to
Welfare, welfare
They built an empire
Off your backs, off your backs
Taxing your labor to secure their fortune
With no accountability
Cough up that restitution
Make you pay your debt to me

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