Chrisette Michele, Talib Kweli, Black Thought - Let Freedom Reign lyrics

Oh American citizen
Come collect your freedom
No matter what you're living in
Oh American citizen
Come collect your freedom
No matter what you're living in
It's time to win

Keep us in the four walls of our churches
We'll be quiet most of us ain't even
Democratic or Republican
And by coincidence, we love the elected
Until they're detected of being human
America falls minorities lose war
But, if we united, we would've won the war
On poverty, war on drugs
War on Medicaid, war on love

Freedom isn't given it is taken
Freedom isn't free it's earned
I know it's learned been hung and burned
Yet rest in peace resurrect it please

This ain't black or white it's gray
This is not about my faith
Most of us don't know what to say
Right from wrong or free from slaves

Let freedom reign do you want to be free
Or do you want to be dead? I want to be free
I want to be free i want to be free
Let freedom reign do you want to be free
Or do you want to be dead? I want to be free
I want to be free i want to be free

America the beautiful suspect as usual
Liberty and death
Give me freedom or my funeral
I walk across the planet with
The steps of a giant
My rhymes bridge the gap
Between religion and science
Cause my evidence is spiritual
I know my sheer presence is a miracle
I wasn't supposed to be here
To share with you but here I am
Standing with my chest out
I take my place in history
I never get left out you stressed out
And scared so it's causing you to act hard
Freedom ain't free
Gotta put it on my black card
My passport claim I'm an American citizen
The constitution said I'm three-fifths
I'm not a semi and gorilla
Pack my song stronger than the Horn of Gideon
Truth is the Norse gave
The native people syphilis
Consider this: Christopher Columbus
Ain't know where he was going
So let's stop calling our
Native brothers Indians

Let freedom reign do you want to be free or
Do you want to be dead? I want to be free
I want to be free i want to be free
Let freedom reign do you want to be free or
Do you want to be dead? I want to be free
I want to be free i want to be free

We were carried here in
Shackles from the homeland
Broom-chopped, chain-locked, brainwashed
Programmed time's changed, freedom reigns
I'm a grown man
Holding the future in the palms
Of my own hands
In this world the coonery and tomfoolery
All I'm trying to do is
Stay true to my community
The daily news ain't the only
Thing that's schooling me
Watching these haters operating with impunity
It's dirty dollar signs
Black and white collar crimes
Running out of time
Out of sight, out of mind
It gets realer in Israel, in Palestine
Troubles of the world start
To seem intertwined
War criminals, conflict minerals
Pillagers are coming home five-star generals
Telling lies in press
Conferences and interviews
I'm trying to take back the power
Cause it's been abused

Let freedom reign do you want to be free or
Do you want to be dead? I want to be free
I want to be free i want to be free
Let freedom reign do you want to be free or
Do you want to be dead? I want to be free
I want to be free i want to be free

I'm just black in America
I'm not Afro-American
Just a passive American
Making believe I'm better than
What we've been, what we've been
I'm just black in America
I'm not Afro-American
Just a passive American
Making believe I'm better than
What we've been, what we've been