Whose Anthem While Injustice Reigns Supreme

Anthem Written For Who?

The song, that song, it's not our song

It hasn't ever been our song, that song

The song, that song, it's not our song

Written when we all were shackled 

Now you want us to sing it while being tackled

Forced us to sing while we were shackled 

Will those invisible bars ever be unshackled

The song, that song, it's not our song

Written by a man who hated

Never had thought one single thought that didn’t have black people berated

His hatred of blacks was so clearly stated

The song, that song, it's not our song

So whether or not we stay standing or seated

That song still signifies us being mistreated

I guess that's why so many of us stay seated

So tell me again you are denying that blacks are still being mistreated

The song, that song, it's not our song

You, not I, call it our national anthem

You see when this nation chose it, the our twilight was damn near midnight 

And gleaming was happening while white men were scheming 

This nation took four centuries to outlaw lynching 

Because lynching black men had Francis Scott Key beaming

So you want us all to stand yet you sell bigotry in our black community 

When your police officers count our dead bodies by the pound

So tell me again why should act patriotic

When you continue to maim and kill us like a crazed psychotic

The song, that song, it's not our song

It hasn't ever been our song, that song

The song, that song, it's not our song 

You try to burn the love of nation from our ancestors

Put us on stakes for white mobs to see killing us while you celebrated jubilantly

So it’s time for that song, your song, not mine song to go

It celebrates way too many white crimes on me

You see at the end of the day there is no way

That Francis Scott Key ever intended that song to be sung by people like me

The Black Blogger, Joseph S. Hall

#reparationist