Pull yourself up by your bootstrap you lazy n*gger
Pull your pants up, that’s why your problems get bigger
Be good like me, you’ll earn your place
Don't tell me it's harder because of your race
Nat Turner fought back, tried to break his chain
Led enslaved men and freed men in his campaign
They crushed them on Belmont, no mercy was shown
Slaughtered two for every one that died of their own
Juneteenth hallelujah, freedom recognized
Prayers had been answered, chance to live and to rise
40 acres and a mule, our people made whole
Then Lincoln was shot, and they kept what they stole
Pull yourself up by your bootstrap you lazy n*gger
Turn the music down, that’s why your problems get bigger
Be good like me, you’ll earn your place
Don't tell me it's harder because of your race
Built a home down in Greenwood, Black wealth could now grow
Through the Birth of a Nation, and that damn Jim Crow
Black Wall Street emerged, our place was now found
Then the Klan killed everybody, burned it to the ground
We fought world wars, the same fire in our eyes
Came home to a promise like other GIs
That new middle class, the country did shine
But we were denied, couldn’t cross that red line
Pull yourself up by your bootstrap you lazy n*gger
Don’t be so mad, that’s why your problems get bigger
Be good like me, you’ll earn your place
Don't tell me it's harder because of your race
We marched with a King that spoke of a Dream
Through sheer force of will that movement gained steam
With sit-ins and boycotts non-violence he prized
Till they killed him in Memphis in front of our eyes
Generations are lost in this fight to survive
A burden too great, with no room to thrive
Our vote is suppressed, our schools are the worst
And they jail all our men, if they don’t kill them first
Get your hands up you dangerous n*gger
Don’t make a move or I’ll pull this trigger
Get on the ground, you know your place
The last thing you’ll see is my smiling face
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