Boonaa Mohammed – Spoken Word – Go Back Where You Came From

			A lot of work
		

			I've been known for telling white people to go back to where they come from.
		

			Because everybody comes from some place and at some point they may not have felt welcome.
		

			My family came with a suitcase of hopes and dreams that one day I could be someone and it is my God
given right to Excel. So step aside, otherwise you will get trumped on
		

			I come from a people who have survived generations of oppression, chanting Oromia will be free with
our hands changes symbolizes our situation.
		

			And it feels like everywhere I go, I'm the enemy to every nation. Everybody telling me to go back
home but my home was colonized by foreign invaders. Now I'm walking in the desert like the Jews once
they with Moses screaming Let My People Go while the Pharaoh is unloading 15 rounds in the clip one
in the chamber the Angel of Death standing by on notice, because black lives only really matter when
the officers gun is loaded. Go back to where you come from, but the slave ships have all left dark.
		

			Go back to where you come from. But the slave ships of all left dock forgetting Africans first
became Americans through illegal immigration and plummets rock. And I wonder if every red state in
the United States realizes the red blood that it was built upon. Because the Washington Redskins and
Cleveland Indians were once the home team but now they're gone.
		

			But don't upset the white people. We don't want them to get uncomfortable.
		

			Might revoke our immigration status and force us to go back to where we're from. But we're still
waiting for them to find Saddam's weapons of mass destructions because isn't that why we went to war
and killed a million civilians. Now they're worried about ISIS, but ISIS is your creation, just like
Osama wasn't your enemy.
		

			Now they're worried about ISIS, but ISIS is your creation, just like Osama wasn't your enemy when he
was fighting the Russians, so don't believe your TV screens for them. Zinus be selling lies. If all
Muslims were terrorists fool makes you think you'd still be alive
		

			they say my religion preaches violence and because of that they want to hurt me ripping jabs off our
sisters because their democracy and teachers mercy gave us freedom of religion until religion
teaches us to be free from these man made laws created by white men of authority. And they don't
want me to turn Malcolm prefer our preach the Word and silence, but MLK stood for non violence in
the same spot that they shot him.
		

			Boom boom is the sound of your justice and action because your justice is just a suffering
injustice. It just is systematic racism and institutionalized infractions. Statistically I have a
better chance of being just another black life that didn't matter. And the far right is outright but
it's all right when you're all white. Go back to where you come from is the slogan they are
chanting.
		

			Go back to where you come from is the slogan they are chanting. But it is God who created this land
and you will all return to it not withstanding. But what would it take for you to just be pleased
with me? What if I shaved off my beard and enjoyed your wine and cheese? change my name from Mohamed
to more Bob or Steve? Would you be less threatened if I abandoned my faith entirely? What if I
bleached my skin lighter by just a few degrees got tough on immigration and foreign policy condemn
those Muslim Nicolas nations for their barbaric tendencies and excused white domestic terrorism is
just a few bad seeds. But I don't want to go back to where I'm from because where I'm from is here
		

			and my resilience is brilliant a living example of all your fears God blessed and finesse from every
skin cell to cuticle Muslim, black, intelligent and hot damn, I'm beautiful.
		

			So Wake Up World, because the future is here. Unapologetically being me from now until infinity and
my people are here to stay. That's a promise you can count on and if you don't like it, then you can
go back to where you come from.
		

			Thank you very much.