How does your celebration relate to me?
\nConfined in a concrete box\u2014can\u2019t hear, can\u2019t see
\nMy life is solitary
\nHow for me is this day honorary?
\nOr let\u2019s go back to its origin days\u2026
\nAs your forefathers proclaimed freedom, mine were their slaves
\nCenturies later our status ain\u2019t changed
\nDark skin still in chains ain\u2019t that strange?
\nAs you shoot off firecrackers fire your guns
\nI\u2019m reminded of my ancestors on the run
\nFleeing plantations, hounds, rape, chains and whips
\nToday it\u2019s prison buses, yesterday slave ships
\nTransported far away from loved ones\u2014forgotten
\nLocked away until our minds are rotting
\nThis is the history you want to whitewash and erase
\nThe theft, lies, savagery you\u2019re ashamed to face
\nLand of the free, home of the brave?
\nWith a quarter of the world\u2019s prisoners\u2014modern day slaves?
\nA declaration of freedom, now as then how you lie
\nMillions of us still in chains on your Fourth of July<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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