When you're just another kid from Africa
Whose president goes abroad for healthcare
And tells the whole world that you're lazy and corrupt
Who is going to give you a Chance?
When all everyone ever hears of your corner of the world is violence and corruption
Your good news and good deeds are mere tear-drops in this sea of negativity
Who is going to give you a Chance?
When the institutions that are supposed to work for you turn around and work against you
And the ones meant to protect you are actually the ones you have to run from
Who is going to give you a Chance?
When kids dream of flying yet don't even have access to basic primary education, are their dreams invalid?
The ones kidnapped from their schools and as a result become scarred for life
Who is to going give them a Chance?
Unfortunately, our reality is that our talents, skills, educational qualifications, hard work, ideas and sometimes outright genius are just not enough.
No matter how much of the above virtues you possess, you still need someone to take a Chance on you, to give you an opportunity to show what you can do.
Since you're automatically a 2nd, 3rd or even 4th class citizen of the world by virtue of being born in certain places or with certain shades of skin colour. The odds are stacked against you. Heavily. So what do you do? You fight. We fight. We don't throw punches yet we fight.
We fight, not like our lives depend on it but because our lives actually do depend on it. We fight for everything we want and everything we get. We fight for every job, every single door we go through, every pound and every last cent.
We dont wait for anybody to give us a chance, we take chances.
If and when we become successful, we fight to stay successful because the higher we go, the harder the fall will be if we fail to keep fighting. We fight till we can fight no more, then we rest easy in our graves knowing we gave it our best shot. We came, we saw the odds stacked against us and we fought our way up. Fight!
