Notes

This country was built on slavery,
which means SLAVES built this country.

Tilled this land from sea to sea to sea,
first there was rice, tobacco, sugar cane,

Then Whitney did his thing,
and cotton became king.

And we were it's soldiers, four million strong.
Fighting for america's freedoms,
even though we remaind america's SLAVES. Built this country.

The descendents of slaves continue to build it.

SLAVES built this country.

We have EARNED reparations for THEIR suffering.
And continue to earn reparations every moment.
We spend submerged in a systemic prejudice, racism, and white supremacy.

That america has not founded with and still has not atoned for.

SLAVES built this country.

Not only Field hands, but carpenters, masons, blacksmiths, musciians, inventors built cities from Jamestown to New Orleans to Banneker's Washington.

Forty acres AND a mule.

We'll take the 40 acres, keep the mule. We made your families rich.
From the souther plantation heirs, to the northern bankers.
To the new england ship owners.
The founding fathers, former presidents, current senators, the Illuminati, the New World Order.

SLAVES built this country.

We had Tubman, Turner, Frederick D.
Then they say lincoln freed the slaves.

But slaves were men AND women.
And only we can FREE OURSELVES.

Emancipation is NOT freedom.
Jim crow, segregation, redlining, public schools feeding private prisons.
Where we become SLAVES again.

As we celebrate Juneteenth for the umpteenth time.
Our account is still oustanding.
Cause this country was built on slavery which means.

SLAVES built this country.
And we DEMAND our 40 acres and a mule.
BUMP THAT

You can keep the mule- keep the forty
We're taking our FREEDOM.

There. That was the poem. Literally at the end they say AND I QOUTE "You can keep the mule- keep the forty, We're taking our FREEDOM." ANDDD "And only we can FREE OURSELVES." LIKE- WHAT?