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Sep 09, 2009
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House Nigger
A HOUSE NIGGER
Tagged , dragged
Manipulated by mentality
The insecurities
Of a insecure past
A nigger that owns his house
To a house nigger , this is a metaphor
A nigger that owns , his business
To a house nigger , what he never had
He will never miss
A nigger that will mate for life
To the house nigger , it’s pride before what’s right
That nigger in the house
He didn’t work in the fields
He was the most oppressed
He was a true slave called by, the masters whims
Yeses master
No sir master
Ostracized
From the peace inside his own mind
Some how , that nigger in the house
Leaned to read and write
This knowledge was his scholarship
Earned by every lash of the unbiased whip
Just like the slave in the fields, his back dripped
His legacy conducingly
To help other slaves to read
His scholarship a formation
Of the right of the free
Tagged , dragged
Manipulated by mentality
The insecurities
Of a insecure past
A nigger that owns his house
To a house nigger , this is a metaphor
A nigger that owns , his business
To a house nigger , what he never had
He will never miss
A nigger that will mate for life
To the house nigger , it’s pride before what’s right
That nigger in the house
He didn’t work in the fields
He was the most oppressed
He was a true slave called by, the masters whims
Yeses master
No sir master
Ostracized
From the peace inside his own mind
Some how , that nigger in the house
Leaned to read and write
This knowledge was his scholarship
Earned by every lash of the unbiased whip
Just like the slave in the fields, his back dripped
His legacy conducingly
To help other slaves to read
His scholarship a formation
Of the right of the free
— press, Sep 09, 2009
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lyz
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Hi
mantiscepter
16 years 9 months ago
Head Of The House
Rett
16 years 9 months ago
YAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY Son
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hello
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