Long Ago Today

p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Once upon a time/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"I was a sin /span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;" 3/5 of a person/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Something to hide/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"nbsp;/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Chorus/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Not so long ago/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Blacks couldnrsquo;t marry Whites/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Many of us were sterilized/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"So here we go/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Tick tock some turning back the clock/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"nbsp;/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Verse 2/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Fighting yesterdaysrsquo; battles/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"All come together in a huddle/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Why r we fighting our own people/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Divide concur the game plan is simple/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"nbsp;/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Chorus/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Not so long ago/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Blacks couldnrsquo;t marry Whites/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Many of us were sterilized/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"So here we go/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Tick tock some turning back the clock/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"nbsp;/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Verse 3/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Homosexuals were burn on the cross/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"The same cross use to brainwash/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Burning crosses on lawns/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"The same lawn span data-scayt_word="Neli" data-scaytid="1"Neli/span was profiled on/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"nbsp;/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Bridge/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Time comes and goes/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Elders die babies r born/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"But do we ever learn/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Same curriculum institutionalize passed around/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"We know what our enemies have done/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"But donrsquo;t know what our ancestors have passed down/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"nbsp;/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Chorus/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Not so long ago/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Blacks couldnrsquo;t marry Whites/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Many of us were sterilized/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"So here we go/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Tick tock some turning back the clock/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"nbsp;/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Verse 4/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"We are leaving our footprint/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"However everybody is on the internet/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Black history only for one month/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Just to shut us up/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"nbsp;/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"2supspan data-scayt_word="nd" data-scaytid="2"nd/span/sup Bridge/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Rolled back affirmative action/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Black man in office no need for actions/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"X-clansman ran for president/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"The nerve to ask for span data-scayt_word="Obomma’s" data-scaytid="3"Obommarsquo;s/span birth certificate/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"nbsp;/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Verse 5/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Back in the day and today/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"We wear the mask that is cracking/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"No more faking the funk/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Not George Clinton more like Bill Clinton/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"span style=""nbsp;/span/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Chorus/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Not so long ago/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Blacks couldnrsquo;t marry Whites/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Many of us were sterilized/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"So here we go/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Tick tock some turning back the clock/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"nbsp;/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Outer verse /span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Forward backwards or sidestepping /span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Lost in the crosswalk which way to go/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Talking about the good old days that we donrsquo;t know/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"Long ago seems like today ouch bumping into the new Jim Crow/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"nbsp;/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"nbsp;/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"By Leroy F. Moore/span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style="font-size: 11pt;"8/21/11/span/p