Ryan Art, Killer Mike, Morgan Freeman - Ana & Barry lyrics

You must also study and learn
The lessons of history
Because humanity has been involved
In this soul-wrenching
Existential struggle for a very long time
People on every continent have
Stood in your shoes
Through decades and centuries before you

The truth does not change
The truth does not change
The truth does not change
The truth does not change

And that is why the answers
Worked out long ago can
Help you find solutions to the
Challenges of our time

The cliff note version, um
Basically says the negro race is
Not of the same caliber
Or shared equality with the white race
And that it was the natural order of
God that we be subordinated to slavery

It said the cornerstone -
Alexander Stephens said
That we have the innate right
To enslave this race of people based
On the natural order of God

And then he said this is
THE CORNERSTONE of the CONFEDERACY

This is not the second
Brick, the third brick, the fourth brick
This is the cornerstone brick of which
The foundation would be built on
And he acknowledged that our
Constitution…may the people
I didn’t want to come
And I don’t want to be here
But here we are, 80 years later
I watched a white officer
Assassinate a black man
And I know it tour your heart out
And I know it’s crippling
And I have nothing positive to
Say in this moment

‘Cause I don’t want to be here