We're still not free (rap by LL)

 

(This was actually a rap I wrote in 87-88)

video of me reading 👇

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We're still not free

He had a dream Martin Luther King, that all of us blacks would have equality,

He did his best to do it peacefully with the bus boycotts, marches & rally's,

A lot of progress was made back in those days,

But have we really come that far since the days of the slaves?

Look at what we have now & what we had then, decide for yourself, You think it's come to an end?

To be a slave back in the days, We were no more then cattle for pay or for trade,

We had to work night & day, Yes we got fed but there was no pay,

A place to sleep, most likely a barn, And if you tried to run away you could lose an arm,

They'd leave you 1 so you still could work, but try that again & you'd loose a foot,

We were made to feel we were no more than dirt, We accepted this calling to bow down & serve,

No education for blacks was allowed, last thing they wanted was a bunch of blacks in a crowd

We couldn't eat or drink just anywhere unless a posted sign for blacks was there,

These are just some of the things we had to endure, So lets see what we have now to see if we're cured

You have to work if you want to eat, And even if you wanna have a place to sleep, 

Loose an arm or foot, today I think not, Now our biggest worry is just being shot,

Some cops act like they have a license to kill, guilty or not they might shoot at will,

There's an automatic threat when they see someone black, Whether you stand or run they might shoot you in the back,

You can't go to just any restaurant when your black, Unless your the hired help coming in the back,

Yes we can go to school & learn a trade, but even that doesn’t mean that we've got it made,

Educated or not you gotta get the job, And hope you don't get interviewed by a Snob, 

So you see my friends not much has changed, Since the days when we were beaten & locked up in chains,

God bless Martin & his accomplisments, 39 years on this earth were very well spent, 

He tried to put blacks on equal ground  & for that in 68 he was shot down,

Now we're not called slaves, We're called "minorities",

A different name, but has it changed? No, we're still not free.