Lord Kitchener "If you're not White, you're Black"

[worlQuache]

We are one race, the human race. We have been conditioned to "think", using our eyes, instead of our brain. There is no scientific basis for eugenics. I wonder why when people are presented with the truth that we are one race, they refuse to believe it?

[YourMateJosh]

oh jeez be what you are, stop it with the labels already.

[milascave]

He isn't talking genetics hee. He's talking about the racial politics of trinidad at the time he wrote it.

[super8tribe]

Watch a piece of Kitchener calypso crisis in 'London is the place for me'

[kiribula]

Whitey here but with black (and Amerindian) heritage. We weren't white on my fathers side until the last few generations. I very much relate to my Caribbean heritage, thank you very much !

[BedRoomGangster]

Very simple Bro.

[brookshire17]

lol all i c is loong comments

[Decapoe]

..they'd get a surprise at the amount of races and mixtures of races that they are. Prove me wrong by checking back 500 years. You'll probably find a Frenchmen somewhere! Anyway....Considering all of the races that are present in you, whats the deciding factor between which you are? Whichever you allow it to be whether you choose your skin, features, hair or you just accept what you are told, it is your responsibilty and no one elses. Okay I'm done now.

[Decapoe]

...right? Logically, YES but..."racism" does't regard logic, its just blind belief. Someone wants to retain the feeling of. superiority, or set-apartness or something so they come up with false logic and adhere to it like a security blanket. It would be a scary way to live to allow others to "give/force" you into a race. Thats how the whitey of old truly opressed in any country from Brasil to the U.S. forced "MENTAL" manipulation/segregation. If anyone traced they're family back far enough ...

[Decapoe]

..country. No Gambia, Camaroon, or any specific country. This proves that race is a CONCEPT. Concepts can be altered. What if you found one ancestor from 300 years ago from Egypt. Would you be Egyptian? Up to you if you take up the culture. Its yours after all. The one drop rule was old whiteys way of staying "pure". Remaining a pure mixture I guess..but anyway. Your grandpa was Irish, are you? Your grandpa was "black" are you? Whats the diff? Logically the on drop should apply to all races ..

[Decapoe]

If he sang that song in reverse it would still be true. Something like "if you are under stress because your skin is a little dark and your features abit African while you kin are all pale its no whale of a tale that you are white none the less." You can ONLY be who YOU choose to be. Whites are every European race on the planet but they are all considered one thing because they got together and said...um.."White! We don't need specifics!" Blacks just say "Black!" without specifying the...

[terissa7]

My father is half white and my mother is black and I consider myself blaccckkkk...but I have another friend exactly like me (mulatto father and black mother) & he is fair skin & all he can talk about is how his grandmother was white. whipee!! Listen, there is enough black pride fi mi...so all the mulatoes, indians and rest mixed ppl who dont want to be considered black...more power to u...as james bRown did say I AM BLACK AND I AM PROUD

[tunafish135]

james browns arse thats just a song he put out to make money. and as for your friend he is right he aint black and niether are you that is the problem with my people as much as i love kitcy he iswrong BLACK people stp excepting every tom dick and harrriet into our race. obama yeah its great a foot foward but he aint black. wheni see a real BLACK person in that posistion then i will be happy. from a true nubian

[terissa7]

Regardless of what reason JB recorded his song, I sing very loud when I hear it. Who are you to tell me that I am not black???? As far as I am concerned, I determine what race I am claiming based on the "amount" of blood in my body. I am 1/4 white and 3/4 black....therefore in the days of majority rules; I am black! So if that bothers you, then, go cry me a river!

[jeannshi]

@tunafish135 So what you are suggesting is that we should all look nubian to pass as black

[jeannshi]

@tunafish135 I agree with him with the guy in every sense

[trinisocajunkie]

until coolie ppl stop callin dey selves coolie, den ah stop usin it, yuh see meeeeee

[hihosilverlining2]

the one drop rule...sad but true

[misschezelle23]

but you are african who is any african to tell you that you are not ?? @hiphopper

[trinisocajunkie]

coolie ppl, all yuh need 2 stop tryna b black, dey is nuhn rong wit bein different, but dey is sumting wrong wit tryna b sumting u not

[LearningDjDunHate]

ey man shut ur arse about coolie if u noe de meaning u go noe why ppl gettin vex wit dah it like saying nigga so shut yuh ass n no matter wa u say ur not black r brown so wake up

[peziak]

Plenty of red/Creole people need to listen to this song again and again.

[heads868]

before considering the song contents as racial ,learn about the person and their experiences which colour them one way or the other, this particular man was touring europe while marley was starting his band and because of people like him rappers can jump around calling one another niggar or bitch ,kitch is dead he is where we were,the question now is where are we going ,i think now is the time to love ourselves as is, if we cannot love us can we ever love anybody.....love all ah you heads

[wetbeak]

that is a actually a diss to a fellow calypsonian...lol

[Kjaja07]

so... what do you consider a mixed person?

[Kjaja07]

i don't understand. Use punctuation. Are you saying that you hate africans who claim that caribbean people are not african? Or are you saying that you are not african because you are caribbean?

[hiphoppersince91]

What do you mean use punctuation? anyways i mean sum dumb ppl such as MNAYMEN believe dat us black people from the carribean ain't black which doesn't make any sense....

[hiphoppersince91]

the person below me MNAYMEN sounded white more den black anyway a true african wouldn't say dat cause in the west indies not everyone is mixed anyways not dat deres anything wrong wid dat

[Kjaja07]

?? you are a "hip hopper" and don't like black people??

[Kjaja07]

Its actually turns out that darker indians (those form the souther part of India) are related to Africans.

[abcbdbjbdbjb]

well done lord kitchie. does who thinks they are not black they need to take a look at them selfs. your either black or white who dont like it damn tough.

[trinichrissy87]

MNAYMEN stop talkin assness... Indians are black. If you not white, you black hoss. Its not a bad or a good thing... it just is what it is.

[sexytrinipeaches]

R.I.P Lord Kitchener

[guyanesejoka]

brown is as close as we get to black there will always be a division beween black n brown in tha caribbean becuase if there wasnt It wouldnt be the Caribbean. Why you think in guyana we have a on going racial war? its just tha way it is.

[MNAYMEN]

please, Indians are NOT black!!!!!!!!!

[medicama01]

Indians make me laugh. As my Dad used to always say, "When they are in trouble, they are black, when they are trying to be white they are Asian". So true.

[marcybanks]

Thanks for this. The late great Kitch. Wow!!

Perfect fit lyrics to music. What an effortless poet!

[ntrlmstk]

Lord Kitchener was so damn right. I'm tired of Indians in Trinidad saying they are not black.

[VivekRajcoomar]

umm...dude, they are not black (but not white either). next ting u will tell me chinese ppl black.

[tunafish135]

too true!

[marlonstallon]

lord relator and kitchie,history father- nice