Whiteboy

I cannot feel guilty for shit that I didn't do

But I can understand the reasons why you think that I should

Yeah, I'm white, but I never put your neck in no noose

And I never burned a cross or hid my face with a hood

You can't just label me racist 'cause I'm related to people

Who did some terrible shit way back before I was alive

My parents brought me up to treat everyone as an equal

I refuse to feel ashamed 'cause of my pretty blue eyes

Fuck a Nazi, fuck a white supremist

Fuck anyone who labels me as that because of my family genetics

The hatred for Caucasians is so fuckin' pathetic

Go be proud that you're Black, but don't hate me for some credit

I'm not the white devil, neo-Nazi, cop tryna pull the trigger

You can call me what you want, but I'd still never say

The white race as a whole ain't the enemy

There's racist white people, but we're far from that collectively

Whiteboy, don't say that

Whiteboy, oh, you so bad

Whiteboy, you wish you were Black

Whiteboy, dear, whiteboy

Whiteboy, white noise

Sayin' shit I can't say with my white voice

White boys, white lies

Don't tell me how to see it through my white eyes

If a black man is sippin' on some Cognac sittin' next to me

I don't assume that every Black's favorite drink is Hennessy

I don't dislike Tanesha 'cause her first name isn't Stephanie

Not only is that wrong, it's a fuckin' waste of energy

Ivory or ebony, forty-five or seventeen

We all bleed the same, Martin Luther King or Kennedy

They're angry I'm recitin' the facts

He's white and he raps, he stole the culture right from the Blacks

Okay, he's fire, but we lit the flame, he's siphoning gas

So fuck this corny little honky man, the whitey is wack

You lettin' history perpetuate the hatred within

And then you paint me with the brush you painted slave owners with, yeah

Whiteboy, don't say that

Whiteboy, oh you so bad

Whiteboy, you wish you were Black

Whiteboy, dear, whiteboy

Whiteboy, white noise

Sayin' shit I can't say with my white voice

White boys, white lies

Don't tell me how to see it through my white eyes

I got a mother, a father, a sister, an auntie and uncle

And a grandma that I picture when you're openly hatin'

And God willin' one day I'll have a kid of my own

I refuse to let you blindly hate my wife or my baby

So go ahead and hate the racists, I pray for their extinction

If you wanna hate the white people, just make a distinction

Between the ones who want the best for everyone regardless

And the ones who built the system just to smother you with hardships

Stop before you say it, I know what you've been thinkin'

How's a straight, white male in 2018 bitchin'?

You're makin' me the villain by demonizing my race

For things I didn't do and decisions I didn't make

No one that I call a friend has ever owned a slave

And neither did our dads, or our dad's dads, fuck sakes

Acknowledging atrocities were wrongly committed

Is all that I can offer when I'm wrongly convicted

I would never hate a man for what God gave him in pigments

And I would never plot against him just because he is different

I would never judge a human for the cards he was given

Or call them lesser than myself 'cause of the race that he's mixed with

White people that you hate aren't your neighbors or lawyers

They're the Rockerfellers, Rothschilds, Bushes and royals

They're the people who monopolize the water and oil

And injected your communities with drugs till they spoil

Got no patience for Nazis, I think they're better off dead

They're fightin' hatred with hatred, makin' the hate more intense

I don't want nothin' to do with either side of the fence

So don't blindly attack me for wearin' braids on my head

Hate the people who believe you put yourselves in the ghetto

Hate the ones who teach they children you ain't shit 'cause they said so

Hate the ones who think you're all the same and judge you profusely

'Cause the way that you're portrayed on our news and in movies

Bein' white and bein' racist aren't the same, man, I promise

Know it's hard to tell the difference if I'm just bein' honest

I deserve the chance to show you I'm not part of the problem

And you owe it to yourselves, we got so much in common

Whiteboy, don't say that

Whiteboy, oh you so bad

Whiteboy, you wish you were Black

Whiteboy, dear, whiteboy

Whiteboy, white noise

Sayin' shit I can't say with my white voice

White boys, white lies

Don't tell me how to see it through my white eyes

Whiteboy, don't say that

Whiteboy, oh you so bad

Whiteboy, you wish you were Black

Whiteboy, dear, whiteboy