What they didn't tell us

"Life ain't easy" is what we're always told

But they never said just how hard it is.

Everywhere I look I people struggling to survive

The reality of it is not everyone is treated the same

No one ever told us there would be so much ever told us there would be so much hatred and ignorance of the great things we can become

They never told us we can make it,

that we can own Corps; and be president, and not just be doctors but own hospitals.

Instead they told us we would drop out of school at 16, or that all girls of our color will all be pregnant before 18, that we are to dumb to learn,

so they dumb down the material, but we let them!

WE prove them right everyday, we do just what they said we would do.

But what about what they didn't tell us?

Some of you were told you would never accomplish anything, SO prove them wrong

Who says we're any different than Whites or Asians, But we are

Not because we're dumb, but because we don't apply yourselves to things that matter.

"We aren't good for anything but killing each other" they say

We make up excuses on why we're not "equal"

I don't know about you but I'm going to forget what they told us and focus on what they didn't.

I want to be great things and you should too,

You should no longer focus on the people who told you you can't make it , and focus on the people who told you you can, or the people who haven't met you yet.

We can be so much more than teenage moms and drug dealers.

WE ARE EQUAL, and it's time to prove it.

Know what they have tried to hide from us, no longer be ignorant of our races greatness,

We have to work as one so that other people can know our greatness too

Now you know what they didn't tell us and its your chose on what you do with it