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born and raised Hawaiian
I'm not born and raised Hawaiian
I was born and raised in Hawaii
I am Hawaiian
I don't stand with one fit on the sand cuz i'm not a fuckin idiot
I stand on both feet strong and planted
I don't drink Heineken I sip 40's
And even then barely
Because alcohol was the downfall of my ancestors
They were greedy and the white man to allowing
Because they were smart enough to let us kill ourselves off
Like they had done time and time again
Then they took power
And our queen fell
White men were greedy
But with empowerment so were we
I'm not no diamond
I don't sparkle
I'm brown
Like the earth
I'm not from zion
Land of milk and honey
I ain't rastafarian or Islamic or Muslim
i'm a Hawaiian
And i'm poor
I know my ancestry
And we were never from zion
We never should have drank "Heineken"
White man killed us but we helped
Now we act black and Jamaican and everything else but Hawaiian
Yet you have the nerve to claim you are
I am Hawaiian
But I wasn't born and raised as one should be
I was born and raised in Hawaii
I am Hawaiian
I don't stand with one fit on the sand cuz i'm not a fuckin idiot
I stand on both feet strong and planted
I don't drink Heineken I sip 40's
And even then barely
Because alcohol was the downfall of my ancestors
They were greedy and the white man to allowing
Because they were smart enough to let us kill ourselves off
Like they had done time and time again
Then they took power
And our queen fell
White men were greedy
But with empowerment so were we
I'm not no diamond
I don't sparkle
I'm brown
Like the earth
I'm not from zion
Land of milk and honey
I ain't rastafarian or Islamic or Muslim
i'm a Hawaiian
And i'm poor
I know my ancestry
And we were never from zion
We never should have drank "Heineken"
White man killed us but we helped
Now we act black and Jamaican and everything else but Hawaiian
Yet you have the nerve to claim you are
I am Hawaiian
But I wasn't born and raised as one should be
Published 26th Nov 2012
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26th Nov 2012 8:33am
30th Jul 2013 3:17am
I don't stand with one fit on the sand cuz i'm not a fuckin idiot
I stand on both feet strong and planted
Class struggle, like tribalism is as much a weapon of colonial invaders as racism. It's an epidemic that COINTELPRO used to split the Panthers into the Bloods and Crips, Andrew Jackson used it turning great plains tribes against each other. The LAPD does it all the time with citizens, pushing them towards desperation.
Bullets are cheap, but watching ignorant people too pissed off to look past their own kin and see what's really going on, watching those people bash each other to death is even cheaper.
Build yourself, instead of reflecting on some culturally apologetic history that never was. Wise work, Comrade!
I stand on both feet strong and planted
Class struggle, like tribalism is as much a weapon of colonial invaders as racism. It's an epidemic that COINTELPRO used to split the Panthers into the Bloods and Crips, Andrew Jackson used it turning great plains tribes against each other. The LAPD does it all the time with citizens, pushing them towards desperation.
Bullets are cheap, but watching ignorant people too pissed off to look past their own kin and see what's really going on, watching those people bash each other to death is even cheaper.
Build yourself, instead of reflecting on some culturally apologetic history that never was. Wise work, Comrade!
