If I Was White

I know they said that Martin had a dream

Mama said I could be anything

Lately, I don’t know what to believe

Cause people with skin like me are more likely to be incarcerated, more likely to be less educated

2021 and that’s frustrating

I’m losing patience

If one day the crowd should say my name

Hope these words will reach you from my grave

If I was white, I’d still be alive

There’d be no pain in my mother’s eyes

It just ain’t right

My heart wouldn’t race when the police are passing me by

If I was white

Maybe I would walk a little taller

Wouldn’t switch it up when they be callin’

Wealth and generations keep me ballin’

I be ballin’

Never stallin’

Maybe I’d be the ones who stands up

This ignorance ain’t bliss, no it’s a cancer

So if you see me with my hands up

I need more than your camera

And if one day the crowd should say my name

Hoping that these words won’t be in vain

Cause if I was white, I’d still be alive

There’d be no pain in my mother’s eyes

It just ain’t right

My heart wouldn’t race when the police are passing me by

If I was white