[Intro Spoken Word] Yeah, listen up to the timeline, open up your eyes. The history they sold you was a kingdom full of lies. You claim the crown of freedom, yeah, you talk a heavy game, But you inherited the victory and left us with the blame. [Verse 1 Rap] Go back to Nineteen Forty Six, McMinn County, Tennessee, A multiracial frontline fighting for democracy. The Battle of Athens, where the G-I's had to stand, White, Black, and Brown men with rifles in their hand. Corrupt lawmakers trying to steal the local vote, They shoved a crooked badge right down the public's throat. They shot down Tom Gillespie, a Black farmer standing tall, But the veterans of Athens brought the iron to the wall. They blew the jailhouse doors right down with dynamite and lead, A colorblind rebellion where the World War Two patriots bled. [Chorus Sung] Boomers, listen close, civil rights was not your cause! The veterans and the statesmen had already fixed the laws! You came online in '68 and stumbled in the dark, A generation captured to fan a leftist spark! Yeah, you thought you were the vanguard fighting for the true, But you were useful idiots to the left that weaponized you! [Verse 2 Rap] Let’s talk about the units that had proven all the merit, Before the grievance industry came trying to dissect it. Navajo Talkers - Marines on the radio giving -Hirohito hell, The Red Tails in the sky where the Tuskegee never fell. The Four-Forty-Second, the Nisei with the grit, Most decorated soldiers and they never tried to quit, While their families were locked behind an homeland fence. The Twenty Fourth Infantry making Korea defense, Holding up the line at the Battle of Yechon, They earned the integration before the Boomers were born! [Chorus Sung] Boomers, listen close, civil rights was not your cause! The veterans and the statesmen had already fixed the laws! You came online in '68 and stumbled in the dark, A generation captured to fan a leftist spark! Yeah, you thought you were the vanguard fighting for the true, But you were useful idiots to the left that weaponized you! [Bridge Rap] Then the executives stepped up to make the system straight, Truman signed the order back in nineteen-forty-eight. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon took the segregated state, Sent the One-O-First Airborne right through Little Rock’s gate. Passed the Bill of Fifty-Seven, broke the Dixiecrats' spine, While Goldwater stood tall on the constitutional line. Barry voted for the voting rights, he desegregated stores, But he warned about the overreach behind the federal doors. George Schuyler, T. R. M. Howard, Archibald Carey too, Rejected Marxist money, kept the free market true. [Verse 3 Rap] Then came Triple K Lyndon Johnson with the Trojan Horse in hand, Dropping welfare traps across a self-reliant land. A Great Society built to break the nuclear home, Penalizing working fathers, leaving mothers alone. Erasing church and business that the World War Two and Silent Gen had made, Trading independent freedom for a government aid. Then the university campuses started to bloom, And the New Left re- engineered the old legal room. They took a finished legal fight and turned it into hate, Feeding Boomers systemic grievance, poisoning the state! [Outro Spoken Word] Yeah, the real rights were won by the men who bled in mud. By the lawyers and the presidents who understood the blood. Even the FBI Men in Mississippi and Mafia Greg Scarpa getting confessions were World War Two and Korea Era Men. You traded colorblind patriotism for identity games, And left the whole American heritage burning in the flames. Not your cause. Yeah, open up your eyes. Not your cause.
