we them people
Kevin Powell
Kevin Powell
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We them people We say We them people We the people We are those people We want to be free We gonna be free Let's get free Let's get free yo We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people Dream on Dreamer The way Alvin Ailey And Maya Angelou And George Floyd And Breonna Taylor Dreamed of Southern-baked Pilgrims Dancing and Slow marching Their sorrows Down the yellow Brick roads Of Second-line members Humming from The heels of their dirt-kissed feet: I wanna be ready/to put on my long white robe.... We are survivors We are survivors We are survivors Of people Who were free And became slaves Of people Who were slaves And became free We know why the caged bird sings We know what a redemption song brings We them people We the people We are those people Who shall never forget Our ancestors all up in us as we sleep Our grandmother all up in us as we weep We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people Because we are Native american Black irish welsh french german polish italian Jewish puerto rican mexican greek russian Dominican chinese japanese vietnamese Filipino korean arab middle eastern We are biracial and we are multicultural We are bicentennial and we are new millennial We are essential and we are frontline We are everyday people and we are people everyday We are #metoo we are #metoo we are #metoo We are muslim christian hebrew too We are bible torah koran atheist agnostic truer than true We are rabbis and imams and preachers and yoruba priests Tap-dancing with buddhists and hindus and rastafarians As the Nicholas Brothers Jump and jive and split the earth in half While Chloe and Maud Arnold Them syncopated ladies Twist and shout and stomp and trump Hate Again Again Again Yeah We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people Still we rise still we surprise Like we got Judith Jamison's crying solo in our eyes Every hello ain't alone every good-bye ain't gone We are every tongue every nose every skin Every color every face mask We are mattered lives paint it black We are mattered lives paint it black We are mattered lives paint it black We are every tattoo every piercing every drop of blood Every global flood We are straight queer trans non-gender conforming We are she/he/they We are disabled abled poor rich Big people little people in between people We are protesters pepper-sprayed with knees on our necks We are protesters pepper-sprayed with knees on our necks We are protesters pepper-sprayed with knees on our necks We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We the people We are those people Who will survive These times Because we done Survived Those times Where pandemics were Trail of tears and lynchings and holocausts Where pandemics were No hope and no vote and no freedom spoke We them people We the people We are those people While our planet gently weeps While our planet gently weeps We bob and bop Like hip-hop Across the tender bones Of those tear-stained photographs To hand to This generation The next generation Those revelations Yeah That blues suite Yeah That peaceful dance Inside a raging tornado We call Love Oh say we them people We them peep Love Ha ha Love Oh We them people We them peep We them people Somebody yell We them peep We them people Twist and shout and stomp and trump Hate Again We them people We are the people We them peep Let's get free We them peep Somebody tell them We them peep Somebody tell them We them peep Free We them peep Free We them peep We them peep We are the people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We the people We are those people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people We them people
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Written by: Evangeline Lawson, Kevin Powell, N'Dea Davenport, Tyneshia Hill
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