It’s Hard To Be Blackalude

We know black lives matter
The way all lives matter
But unfortunately in America you gotta say black lives matter
Because when you say all lives matter, oftentimes
You don't get to the black lives

What's it all for right
I mean are we ever gonna find justice here?
All the civil rights movement, all the black power movement, everything that's come before
You're that vulnerablе
To a lynch mob of police
And they're gonna gеt away scot-free

What is freedom? (Black power)
Black power
What is your nationality ((?))
Aren't you colored children (No)
Aren't you negro boys and girls (No)

We believe that the development of black people depends on their first unifying
It also depends on them being able to put aside our petty differences
Our petty sovereignties
And transcend those kind of petty concerns to reach a stronger kind of unity

I know it's hard to be black in a world controlled by white folks
Du Bois said we always have the double consciousness
We trying to be black and meanwhile you got a white ghost
Hovering over your head that says if you don't do this you'll get killed
If you don't do this you won't get no money
If you don't do this nobody will think you're beautiful
If you don't do this nobody will think you're smart
That's the ghost
You're trying to be black and the ghost is telling you to be a ghost

Black is beautiful
Don't you see
Black