One Blood

Look at me

You see a Black man

Does my face show my culture

Or does it not

Do you notice the freckles

Or do you not

What Black man straight from Africa has freckles

My thick hair

My brown skin

Don't necessarily show my ancestry

I'm a descendant of a slave owner

I'm a descendant of a slave

Can you look at me and see

My White great-grandfather

Probably not

Did you know that you're my cousin

Ah, you didn't think about that

Records show

Everyone you look around and see

Are cousins

Whether they are white as snow

Red as clay

Black as tar

Or some other color

All are cousins

Yes we're all cousins

After that great flood

Left no one but Noah

His sons and their wives

Once again civilization begun

Noah is the great great great ... grandfather

Of everyone on this earth

Like it or not

We're all cousins

Connected by blood

Like all large families have done

We've drifted apart

Fought over what's mine and what's yours

Despised one another

Became jealous of one another

Begin to hate one another

And disowned one another

We rarely ever talk about our shared history

Tried to forget it

Tried to forget that we're all one blood

You're still my cousin

And I'm your cousin

One blood

Despite the various colors of our skin

One blood