Treatment

If you saw an old lady getting beat up on the side of the street Even without her crying for help somebody would intervene But why is it that when we cry for help we either get ignored Or somehow we must have had it coming? Treatment Everyday ah di same treatment It's 2018 yet blacks still getting slave treatment Small slice ah di cake treatment Prejudice to the face treatment And other races can't relate because they don't ever get the same treatment Many of them unaware Either that or they don't care They ain't even tryna hear about any of the bad things happening to us Somehow hearing about it is actually worse than going through it Newsflash homie, you don't wanna hear about it and we don't wanna go through it Nowadays to each other we can be so so cruel (Facts) You play blind to it every time coz you don't go through it (Big facts) Over time I was really hoping we could grow slowly through it Yah 44 Elected got me feeling like we're so close to it So close to a better America A better America for everybody But these days I'm second guessing it I don't think we're ever getting it At least, not in my lifetime Seems like we just can't win But still, I try I try They say things are different I don't see no difference 50 Sum years and we still going through the same things What's the difference? What's the difference? Same conditions, same issues Only difference is the treatment We do not get the same treatment And if we dare complain, we get the "go back to from whence you came" treatment We're getting tired of the mistreatment Tired of the stop and the frisk treatment We do hard time, while everybody else get the slap on the wrist treatment Have you ever called the cops and somehow got cuffs on your wrists? Are they overly rough on your kids? Trust me, we had enough of it It makes it hard to trust the government It's so hard to trust the legal system or the evil, twisted people running it Struggling Don't you see my people struggling? You ain't seen Eric struggling to breathe? They just choked him out in public We just tryna get some justice I mean, ion see us getting none of it At least not for Philando And we ain't seen none for Sandra Yo it's got me feeling like Bruce Banner You don't wanna see us angry You don't wanna see us marching peacefully with our hands up But you're better off with the "Martin"approach, you don't wanna see the "Malcolm" We'd be out here like "by all means necessary" But that don't necessarily mean that violence is necessary But some change is necessary They say things are different I don't see no difference 50 Sum years and we still going through the same things What's the difference? What's the difference? Same conditions, same issues Only difference is the treatment Everyday ah di same treatment It's 2018 yet blacks still getting slave treatment Small slice ah di cake treatment Prejudice to the face treatment And nobody else can't relate because they don't ever get the same treatment Many of them unaware Either that or they don't care They ain't even tryna hear about any of the bad things happening to us Somehow hearing about it is actually worse than going through it Newsflash homie, you don't wanna hear about it and we don't wanna go through it If just having a discussion about it is so uncomfortable Just know that the experience is way worse And some point you have to ask yourself Why are you ok with this happening to us?