GREAT WHITE NORTH –MIKERAPHONE

INTRO:
Mike Check. Yeah all that rhyme styling’s cool playing with words/
But give me the mic and I’m a say something of worth
Eh I love Canada indeed I’m so Canadian maple syrups what I bleed/
But Canada ain’t all sweet

VERSE 1:
The Great White North drained the life force/
Of millions of human rights ignored/
European recourse for building this nation/
Appropriation enslavement exploitation/

Foundation’s allegedly English and French/
But that ignores Canada’s first residents/
Historical documents fictitious twisted/
How Chris discover *ish nations been existed/

But got stripped quick of land and all props/
Wars fought biologically cloths with Smallpox/
Populations dropped survivors enslaved/
Biased treaties made which Whites would renege/

To deculturate Native customs banned/
Residential schools left youth roots curtained/
Moved to reserve lands while Whites made reservation/
Of better habitation Natives placed in lesser station/

Observe isolation intoxication on First’s earths/
It’s apparently clear reserves mirror ghetto turfs/
Aboriginal worth was abhorred as minimal/
This is Canada’s historical core and it’s pitiful

CHORUS 2x:
The flag’s tainted with racist imagery/
Ivory equals white supremacy/
Red’s for blood shed by minorities/
If you disagree do your history

VERSE 2:
CEh ain’t like States it’s a slave’s haven (kiss teeth sound)/
Till 1834 Blacks faced enslavement/
After liberation still kept subordinate/
Through schools that segregate curriculum miseducates/

Texts circulate info on A.G. Bell’s invention/
Elijah McCoy’s lubricating cup’s not mentioned/
Ask Viola Desmond if Blacks let in front row/
Dumped folks in ghetto to settle for bum role/

Speaking of crumb holes evil tactics killed/
Halifax’s Black village Africville hacked to nil/
The facts is real their home was made into a ghetto/
Invading railroad waste zone no H2O/

TO was cool yeah cold like wind chill/
Entertainment face painted insult called minstrel/
White skin cells made man Blacks were boys no fetal/
Not a person but a Black thing Negro

CHORUS 2x:

VERSE 3:
Caucasians hold top station and dropped Asians/
To bottom placement brought to this nation for job enslavement/
The railroads connect cause of Chinese immigrants/
Whose work was highly threatening and were denied benefits/

When they tried get residence kept back with head tax/
Their women weren’t welcome so birth rates be left flat/
War xenophobia sealed Japanese fate/
They were despised as spies and enemies of the State/

War measures activated human rights violated/
Property funds freedom confiscated/
Incarcerated in camps for internment/
They even paid for captivity like tenants and rent/

These events don’t fit CEh’s distinguished image/
One thing’s clear it’s only fair when your skin is/
These events don’t fit CEh’s distinguished image/
One thing's clear it’s only fair when your skin is

CHORUS 2x: