Mama why do they call me nigger?
Walking down the street, that is all I hear...that is all I see
You look in a window, there it is "Colored Only".
Being looked down on by hateful eyes.
Verbally and pysically beaten down..suppressed.
Am not I also God's child...as you?
Do I deserve any more or any less?

Mama Why Do They Call Me Nigger?

Mama why do they call me nigger? 
I go to school constantly in search for answers.
Why am I discriminated and met with such hate and hostility.
These hands of mine are worn...already to the bone.
An employer with employees, I am not either because I am me.

Mama why do they call me nigger? 
We go to church and pray to heaven.
Listen to the words of God and say "Amen".
But we leave the church forgetting what was said.
Hate ..me...scorn me. have they forgotten what they have read?
On the bus, in a restaurant, or a store, they force to the back.
Why? Because I am different...
Misunderstood because I am Black.