This is for us.

There’s always a plus. 

No more slaves are us,

Just in God we trust,

Thanks to those who pave the way.

This is for those of the slave days,

Which led to the boycott rage, 

And who still fight for our unsettled freedom. 

Old Negro spirituals built heroes.

Once thought of as zeros, now we roll,

As politicians, musicians, and providers,

In a land that wasn’t ours,

Yet still we bloomed as flowers,

In a land that was barren for us.

Sister Rosa in the bus,

Mixed with Martin and Malcolm,

Ralph Abernathy, Philip Randolph,

And the Reverend Jesse Jackson.

James Weldon and J. Rosamond Johnson

Wrote the national Black anthem.

Thanks to Huey P. Newton

For the strength of the Black Panthers.