El Mina was a castle that was converted into a dungeon, it was used to house slaves until they were transported up the slave coast.



the year was 1568...i was African born and torn from the Congo..
where Sierra Leone and the Niger river parted..
started up the slave coast, we was starving shackled in a castle,
but El Mina wasn't fit for no king..im the ancestors voice
the message from the middle passage
that chained ankles and threw our hope overboard
so i floated to 1634..Caribbean island"s who knew
that Jamaica wasn't jam rock..Sugarcane picking slave master's
had our peoples deadlocked..They was Tabasco smoking
while we was tobacco choking dying from the slave trade..
underfed..
overworked..
never paid, passed out...
i woke up in Haiti 1791, where the Caribbean seas drowned
My heritage..now im creolized in foreign land..
Haitian became a revolution, rebelled to escape unfair clutches.
Settled in mountainous ta rains,
maybe then
i could touch the sky, Mt. Whoever gave a fuck about us though.
freedom was slower in America..
manumissions just fake petitions
Government didn't emancipate us..listen we was still indentured
to brew coffee hoping to stay awoke.hoping to stay alive.
but fell asleep in 1935.. and the coffee bean aroma still present
kept the white sheets burning life's
crosses on our streets..
nooses on our trees
still shedding the same blood that leaked into the red sea
from my Ghana descendants
Freedom was a state mind..
my mind stayed slaved i was still caged...
mind wanted to be a free bird , so i can fly away..
where the world changes...2009 where would to world be today
without Africa's children...Africa's Influence..
Rosa Parks, Marin Luther King, Harriet Tubman
Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, Crispus Attucks...
United States president Barack Obama...our Blood travels