They gave us
Pieces of silver and pieces of gold
Tell me,
Who'll pay reparations on my soul?
Many fine speeches (oh yeah)
From the White House desk (uh huh)
Written on the cue cards
That were never really there
Yes, but the heat and the summer were there
And the freezing winter's cold
Now tell me,
Who'll pay reparations on my soul?
Call my brother a junkie cause he ain't got no job (no job, no job)
Told my old man to leave me when times got hard (so hard)
Told my mother she got to carry me all by herself
And now that I want to be a man (be a man) who can depend on no one else (oh yeah)
What about the red man
Who met you at the coast?
This illustrates the dysfunctional family scenario common in families of Black and Third World people in Amerika. While unemployment and fatherless homes are viewed by some as stereotypes of Blacks in Amerika, the reality is that Amerika and its methods of racial oppression caused this problem. 
 
 This is similar to the concept of how even after the oppressors are not seen in the community, the victims of oppression still carry a violent, self-hating mentality, depicted in the above photo, as a white man forces a Black man to whip another Black man.
Wholl Pay Reparations on My Soul?