I don’t know much about reparations 
But I do know 
Haiti had to pay France 
a billion in retribution 
found out freedom be expensive 
   
that breaking out of bondage 
left them broke 
While the White World applauded 
Western world
calls it righteous 
the way pale hands 
could penny pinch 
a cotten picking nigga 
slipped into enslaved pockets
Pull out a dollar 
uncle sam 
a pimp made proper
traded bodies 
like playing cards 
only a joker
could beg for reparations
but a tax break
just another ace up his sleeve 
ahh i see 
so compensation  
the standard 
for everybody 
except us 
buying a black man 
was the best investment 
america ever made 
I mean, 
in DC, Massa got a check 
just for freeing the slaves 
got a slice of american pie 
with a side of pension 
they don’t mention
 
our country can afford 
to pay you 
for losing a slave 
just 
not for being one 
trump spent 25 million dollars bombing iran
40 million on his birthday parade nobody attended
10.8 BILLION on the nypd last year
they claim our country can’t  
afford the cost of reparations 
like trumps chump change 
couldn’t change a nigga's life 
in the background of this poem 
there’s a black baby about to be evicted from their  broken bassinet 
I have to wonder 
if white america can hear them crying
or are they caught in the sound of tax dollars breaking like bombs 
we didn’t know about 
I beg this country for nothing 
I expect what I am owed 
and I am owed  
a lot more 
than 40 acres 
and a mule 
iThe american pie 
was basted in Black Blood 
i shouldn’t be  
starving 
for a slice