"Liberty Miss Liberty"
Rising in the harbor of America so great
Built on a platform of apartheid and hate
Standing for justice so straight, so tall
Justice for some, not justice for all
Using the wretched refuse of your teaming shore
Prospering from the labor of your tired and poor
Balancing on the shoulders of so many slaves
Sending human cargo to painful early graves
Huddled masses yearning to breathe free
Tasting the bitter bark of the lynching tree
The chains of oppression you promised to break
You slipped around the ankles of the slaves you make
You raped my daughters, my wife you abused
My sons you hung by the neck confused
Stripped me of my God and changed the good book
You altered my name, my pride you took
Huddled masses yearning to breathe free
Guess that line didn’t apply to me
Yet still Miss Liberty, I believe in you
And pray one day you’ll believe in me too…
From: "Breath of My Ancestors"
(Whisperings From the Conscience of Africans in America(
Rising in the harbor of America so great
Built on a platform of apartheid and hate
Standing for justice so straight, so tall
Justice for some, not justice for all
Using the wretched refuse of your teaming shore
Prospering from the labor of your tired and poor
Balancing on the shoulders of so many slaves
Sending human cargo to painful early graves
Huddled masses yearning to breathe free
Tasting the bitter bark of the lynching tree
The chains of oppression you promised to break
You slipped around the ankles of the slaves you make
You raped my daughters, my wife you abused
My sons you hung by the neck confused
Stripped me of my God and changed the good book
You altered my name, my pride you took
Huddled masses yearning to breathe free
Guess that line didn’t apply to me
Yet still Miss Liberty, I believe in you
And pray one day you’ll believe in me too…
From: "Breath of My Ancestors"
(Whisperings From the Conscience of Africans in America(