Explanations

Why do you cry? I cry because I am a second-class citizen. Why do you feel that way? I feel this way because I am said to be no more than 3/5 of a person. How are you gonna feel better? I’m gonna stop crying and take a seat. Isn’t that seat for whites only? Technically speaking yes. Well how can you justify sitting there? If we’re all burned on a cross our color disappears and we’re all flesh underneath. Why are you so brave? I don’t see it as bravery, I see it as what’s right--- Protest, Peace, Peace, Protest Exercise the rights supplied to rest, Of society that chooses to exclude this colored blood Civil Right’s shouldn’t be something to only dream of I want to cleanse cotton field memories laced with sorrow I sit down for my liberty and a brighter tomorrow