(Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)
"So, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream."


First we were snatched from home
Then attacked and thrown on boats where we gnashed and moaned
Separated from our families, latched to poles

Where we starved got diseased and the shackles molded up our bodies so our bones
Eventually grew deformed
So we tossed overboard by the captains orders

Cuz we worthless if handicapped or sick
Well, that's what they said as they threw us off the ships
And the black mothers would kill they kids

Cuz they'd rather watch them die then see they children live
The rest of they life on this hell on earth
So, the pregnant ones committed suicide to stop the birth

They say a third of us arrived cold and decayed
And the ones that survive were sold as slaves
Where we worked 'til out minds just could take it

Then was beat to death for fun, bodies stripped naked
Meanwhile, the black daughters cried while raped
And your family was killed if you tried to escape

And how you think they picked which negro had to go?
They made up a clever rhyme,
"Eenie meenie miney mo, catch a !@$@ by the toe."

How could this really be it?
And that's how it stayed 'til the south was defeated
But even after that it took a hundred years plus

before we had the right to sit where we wanted on a bus
Peep this...
When they abused us and beat us

All we really had was Music & Jesus
So, tell me why you think it's odd
That you see black people always thankin' God?

Award shows, sports games, any chance we got
Man, we gotta thank Him every day we wakin' up
That we ain't been shanked or shot, ganked or robbed

On our way to our stankin' job
Givin' praise to the Lord for His grace and not forsakin' us
That's why my faith is rock solid

And you ain't gotta understand me
But I'ma thank Him too, when I receive my Grammy.


(Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)
"I have a Dream. My four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!"