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censored dialogue - sundown town lyrics

[intro]
by some estimates, as many as ten thousand sundown towns have sprung up across the country by 1970. some with a warning to african+americans not to…
let the sun go down on you, was an unspoken rule that spread by reputation
others where the warning was explicitly spelled out…

[verse 1]
my daddy nose wider than a houston highway
all the women in my fam pledged aka
all men in my fam pledged k+a+psi
i’m the first to enroll at pwi
yeah i’m light, but melanin strong denna b+tch
i don’t burn, i just tan, i peep the gold+brown skin
wish i could go back to ghana without a hitch
but slave ships cut ties i don’t know how to mend
i would follow the bread trail of black bodies
but thosе crumbs were laid four hundred yеars ago
i got a record, i am just another black body
that the system tried to swallow up years ago
i was nineteen when it all went down
i’m a criminal, my momma was so astound
but when you raise me in a city where there’s nothing to find
you leave all these kids of color to find hobbies in crime
and i just followed the line, i see the locs and the slimes
on my shady five sh+t but i still focused on rhymes
we can’t go to the mall, set trips cause stabs
unless you wit an adult, that sh+t just isn’t for grabs
nothing safe to fade, not even f+cking arcades
hit that sh+t for birthday and someone flashed a .38
they pulled a gun on my homie just right after i left
sometimes this feels like grand auto theft
sh+t
[chorus]
one of my uncles disappeared
in a sundown town
that’s why i feel some type of way
when the sun go down
that’s why i feel some type of way
when the sun go down
got a target on my body
’cause my skin so brown
these republicans
they tryna make me rot in the pound
can’t trust white people
when i see ’em around
that’s why i feel some type of way
when the sun go down
sun go down, sundown town
this whole f+cking country is a sundown
this whole f+cking country is a sundown
this whole f+cking country is a sundown
sun go down, sundown town
this whole f+cking country is a sundown
this whole f+cking country is a sundown
this whole f+cking country is a sundown

[verse 2]
go and peep the constitution, i’m three fifths of a human
and they claim it’s changed but man, i see they sin
made us addicted to this crack, told us to wash it with gin
set us up to shoot each other, cops don’t even come in
we don’t get first response, we don’t get one at all
silent treatment unless you can go and dribble a ball
‘less you can pull up from three but don’t get down on your knee
they’ll take away your contract and let you sleep in the street
they say my lips too thick, they overdrawing they sh+t
they say my hair too kinked but all they ends be split
they call me a monkey but they be spraying they tans
claim that they got a culture but they don’t season they pans
they wanna be vultures, they picking bones in the sand
they write history books so they gon’ say we was friends
they k!lled the black panthers, called them the terrorist clan
that’s why i got up on this beat and went assata again, n+gga
[chorus]
one of my uncles disappeared
in a sundown town
that’s why i feel some type of way
when the sun go down
that’s why i feel some type of way
when the sun go down
i got a target on my body
’cause my skin so brown
these republicans
they tryna make me rot in the pound
can’t trust white people
when i see ’em around
that’s why i feel some type of way
when the sun go down
sun go down, sundown town
this whole f+cking country is a sundown
this whole f+cking country is a sundown
this whole f+cking country is a sundown

[outro: mother viola fletcher & censored dialogue]
i am one hundred and seven years old and have never been, seen justice
(sun go down, sundown town
this whole f+cking country is a sundown)
i pray that one day i will
(whole f+cking country is a sundown
this whole f+cking country is a sundown)
i have been blessed with a long life and have seen the best and the worst of this country
(sun go down, sundown town
this whole f+cking country is a sundown)
i think about the terror, horror
(this whole f+cking country is a sundown
this whole f+cking country is a sundown)
inflicted upon black people in this country every day
(sun go down, sundown town
this whole f+cking country is a sundown)
and i ask survivors and descendants to be given the chance to seek justice
(whole f+cking country is a sundown
this whole f+cking country is a sundown)
for seventy years the city of tulsa and this chambers of commerce told us the massacre didn’t happen
(sun go down, sundown town
this whole f+cking country is a sundown)
like we didn’t see it with our own eyes
(this whole f+cking country is a sundown
this whole f+cking country is a sundown)
we lost everything that day: our homes, our churches
(sun go down, sundown town
this whole f+cking country is a sundown)
our newspapers, our theaters, our lives
(whole f+cking country is a sundown
this whole f+cking country is a sundown)
greenwood represented all the best of what was possible for black people in america
(sun go down, sundown town
this whole f+cking country is a sundown)
no one cared about us for almost a hundred years
(this whole f+cking country is a sundown
this whole f+cking country is a sundown)
we and our history have been forgotten and washed away
(sun go down, sundown town
this whole f+cking country is a sundown)
this congress must recognize us and our history
(whole f+cking country is a sundown
this whole f+cking country is a sundown)
for black america, for the white americans, and for all americans
(sun go down, sundown town
this whole f+cking country is a sundown
this whole f+cking country is a sundown
this whole f+cking country is a sundown
sun go down, sundown town
this whole f+cking country is a sundown
whole f+cking country is a sundown
this whole f+cking country is a sundown)
thank you

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