Kailangan na tayo, gumising ating damdamin
Isipin natin tong hangilin, isipeden na natin
Baguin bakit ba ganyan na kapos ang ating kamay
Mga preso ng sekreto, bakt malisa say-say
So na masalpas asya be, less a self more selfishly
The pressure's on myself to show that there's discrepancy
Identity that's meant to be a colonized mind and me
Lying in her eyes, will refine her self as enemy
Time to use papaya soap like whiteness is the answer
Cotton-colonized approach can find us like I'm not a throh
Question it, you start to choke unless you lessen half your soul
Pressing close is flat and nose is cold as nest if I'm gonna know
Bestify your race to brown, color of the country's ground
Color of the roots is dyed beneath the lands of Mindanao
People power a sequel because this be the people's hour
So we need to see it now or we can see what's really ours
This is for the place where my mother's land
Where I got my face and these rounder hands
I used to be ashamed, now I understand
This is who I am, I said it's who I am
T.C. separate!
T.C. separate!
Going behind means what?
Yeah!
That's right, that's right.
There's like three of us in the crowd, whatever.
And I wrote this song like five years ago
and it was the start of like me really coming home
to like who I am.
Everyone thinks I'm Mexican
but you know I'm actually Chamorro and Hawaiian and everything
but you know that's basically Mexican and Pacifica.
Back to Guahan, back to what we have, you know,
collective and Chamorro.
At International Women's Day
we're here celebrating the powers of estrogen, you know.
Good stuff.
I mean, if I was an aspiring MC tonight
I would have taken notes.
It would be a bar, dude.
It's made men call women bitches
who in turn color women bitches.
It's bring bridges to the point where we don't know which is wrong or right.
It's made us color blind only seeing black and white.
Planting racism and bigotry
promoting racial tensions and fights.
Again, she asks me,
what is hate?
It's taught a-
Man, it ain't no joke, it's not a sisto.
How do I tell you guys to somehow?
Mamalo suprido
y lo que sobrevive
because we have indeed survived.
There is beauty in struggle.
Back to the woman and as long as the weakest link in society
has not been taken care of
which is the most important link
as the cultural keeper, no?
As the feeder, as the one that bears children,
as the one that is most linked, I think, to Mother Earth
then the world will be over.
So we have a lot to fight for,
a lot to honor, a lot to celebrate
and a lot to be happy for,
the accomplishments have been done
as we celebrate the 100th International Women's Day.
International Women's Day
is dedicated to all the mamas,
sisters, partners,
all the women out there
holding it down on the day to day
and especially those,
I mean, all the women holding it down day to day
in the struggle is trying to survive
but especially to those organizing
you know, organizing strong
and raising strong leaders, strong women leaders
and organizing all around the world.
I love y'all.
At the bottom of my heart.
Pele, peace.
Because women, women birth the movement
and they hold it down on the front lines
and y'all my inspiration.
