I am a revolutionary!
\nhe said it without pause
\nempowering the people
\nthat was the cause
\nI’ll never bend or bow
\nwon’t die in the streets
\nwill live my life in rhythm
\nwith the people’s beat
\ndon’t want to stand on a mountain
\nnor shine like a star
\ndown in the valley is my place
\nwhere the people are
\nI love the people
\nwill die for them
\ntheir voice music to my ears
\nlike a gospel hymn
\nit’s not a whim
\nmy calling
\nto serve with my all
\nto live for the people
\ntill the day I fall
\nand even then
\nmy contributions won’t end
\nit will be remembered that
\nI dared to struggle
\nso in the end we’d dare to win
\nI vowed not to die
\nslipping on ice
\nnor in pursuing
\nany personal gains or petty vice
\nbut rather for the people
\nthe only way I’d go
\nand even then
\nthe pigs would know
\nI was there
\nlike George Jackson said
\nI’ll haunt them from the grave
\nthe specter of
\na revolutionary slave
\nI am a revolutionary!
\nhe said it loud and proud
\nthe people joined in with him
\nhe always moved the crowd
\nthe pigs feared him for
\nhis unifying feats
\nhe revolutionized racist whites
\nand gangs in the streets
\nup at the crack of dawn
\nthe entire day given
\nto leading the Panther Party
\nin community building
\nserve the people programs
\nlike free breakfast for school children
\nhe showed slaves how to be free
\nso the enslavers killed him
\non December 4th
\n1969
\na day we should remember
\nfor all time
\nthe day they made him a martyr
\nshot him as he slept in bed
\npoint blank in the head
\nour beloved Chairman Fred<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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