THE BLACK WALL STREET
/We were black settlers trying to find a place to call home
Langston had a dream, he wanted us to have a state to call our own
White America also had a dream, they had a different vision
north and south were the division
We took it and built with the little territory we were given...
Black entrepreneurs we started our own district
Bankers, Doctors, and Teachers
They didn’t believe we were smart enough to become readers
The Greenwood District we were alive, wealthy and thriving!
The white man feared to see us do more than just surviving!
If it wasn't Dick Rowland, they would have found another reason
By any means they were ready to call it treason
Red summers, and lynching season
Planes in the sky dropping bombs to kill us all
They torched everything to see our city fall
16 hours was all it took to burn our black city to the ground
They couldn't bear to see us try to snatch back our precious crowns