Lyrics

Black Man in America 2020


Ha
I'm a Black Man
A Very Proud
Proud Man
A very gifted man
Loving
Faithful
Family
Community

But the community
Looks at us
As a Black man
Like we
are less than
Almost Like we are a dog
But You know
Black Brown White Tan Yellow
Have come together
It's unprecedented
and changed the world
Cause it's only so long that you can keep a knee on the neck
Before an uprising

Only so long before the knee on the neck
turns into an uprising.

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I'm a Black man in America
A Black man in America
Oh Oh Oh
Said a Black man in America
I'm a Black man in America
Oh Oh Oh

Why do you look at me like that
Why do you speak to me like that
Why do you treat me like that

I'm not less than a man
I'm more than a man
I'm a man's man
Yes I can
There's nothing I can't do
There's no one I shouldn't be able to see


But when you accuse me
I'm a proud man
I'm a talented man
I'm a family man

History speaks
Speaks of the numbers
Brought against our will
Puttin us under

Advanced weapons
killed many by the dozens
trying to escape tyranny
Cutting limbs & of our cousins

Still
Still
With the Hymns
We survived
Preserved our families lives

But in 1863
it all seemed to me
Like a big fat lie
Like a big fat lie

Juneteeth Came
Jim Crowe named
40 acres and a mule
was a game
More fire from more fuel

No empower
No empire
No Black Power

No Prop
No tone at the Top
with no Opp
That was their plan
Til' George Floyd

George Floyd


Speech
Even A.L.E.C
kept us at bay
at the ballot
but if you went to prison
there was no ballot
Voter suppression
Job suppression
Opportunity suppression
Created emotional compression
that was ready to explode










Over Qualified
Clutched purses
Rejected loans
No vacancies
Professional Skepticism
Drug Dealer
Deadbeat Dad
No Mentors
Unemployed Again
First to Layoff
But I made you Millions
Give you 90% Bonus
Cut Out of email Chain on issues

Prove It Black Leader
Spoken Down to
Don't trust your Work
Don't trust your Judgement
Credit Risk
Higher Bank Fees
Higher Interest rate
No word on Job Apps
Any Felonies?

Dead Beat baby Daddy