Double Consciousness Songtext
von Adrian Younge

Double consciousness
The psychological challenge we face as we look at ourselves
Through the eyes of a racist society


Image versus identity is the conundrum
It′s further perplexed by the fact that we can't even agree on our name
As a black father, I fight with my five-year-old daughter as she says
"We are brown and they are pink"

And in her defense, she views the world with a version optic
As I view the world through the stained glass of history
That questions whether I′m even human