Emulation of W.E.B. Du Bois

I am the Smoke King,

I am black!

I am swinging in the sky,

I am wringing worlds on awry;

I am the thought of the throbbing mills,

I am the soul of the soul-toil kills,

Wraithe of the ripple of trading rills,

Up I'm curling from the sod,

I am whirling home to God.

I am the Smoke King,

I am black.

I am the Smoke King,

I am black!

I am wreathing broken hearts,

I am sheathing love's light darts;

Inspiration of iron times,

Wedding the toil of toiling climes,

Shedding the blood of bloodless crimes --

Lurid lowering 'mid the blue,

Torrid towering toward the true,

I am the Smoke King,

I am black.

I am the Smoke King,

I am black!

I am darkening with song,

I am hearkening to wrong!

I will be black as blackness can --

The blacker the mantle the mightier the man!

For blackness was ancient ere whiteness began.

I am daubing God in night,

I am swabbing Hell in white:

I am the Smoke King,

I am black.

I am the Smoke King,

I am black!

I am cursing ruddy morn,

I am nursing hearts unborn:

Souls unto me are as stars in the night,

I whiten my black men -- I beckon my white!

What's the hue of a hide to a man in his might?

Hail, great, gritty, grimy hands --

Sweet Christ, pity toiling lands!

I am the Smoke King,

I am black.

Why do you judge me by the color of my skin?

Are we not the same?

Why do black people have to be theives?
Some of us do know good, if you'd only believe.
Why are my brothers made out to be naive?
Am I so different that you can't accept me?
Why do you judge me by the color of my skin?
Are we not the same?

Why do you judge me by the color of my skin?
Are we not the same?
Why does every Mexican man's name have to be Paco?
Why does everyone assume all they eat are beans and Taco's!
Why is it that I recieve unfair treatment?
Is it because I speak and look a bit different?
Why do you judge me by the color of my skin?
Are we not the same?

Why do you judge me by the color of my skin?
Are we not the same?
Why do all Asians have to have small eyes?
Why are we all perceived to be as smart as God?
Why are we judged if we don't fit the criteria?
Never accepted for who we truly are.
Why do you judge me by the color of my skin?
Are we not the same?

Why do you judge me by the color of my skin?
Are we not the same?
If we are all human, doesn't this make us the same.
Can't you learn to accept us they we have been made.
The African American, The Mexican, The Asian, The Jew!
We are all just people!
So tell me why do you judge us by the color of my skin?
Are we not the same?

-Omobolade