The Black Wall Street

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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 even 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...
Red summers, and lynching season
By any means they were ready to call it treason!

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 bare to see us try to snatch back our precious crowns...

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