It's Movement Time

Your history book's got it all wrong So I come to you with this song In 1810, on el gran grito de pasion Se llevantaron con razon Black and brown fighting together, on a day I'll always remember En el zin de Mayo con el grito de gallo Black, white and brown bleeding together, on a day I'll always remember 'Cause really, it hasn't been that long So just in case Kat Williams has you guessin' Let me kick y'all down with a little history lesson In the 19th Century, while the U.S promoted degradation, annihilation with it's military and U.S navy Mexico was getting rid of the caste system, voted for its first indigenous President Even getting rid of legalized slavery The underground rail road also ran south Which led Black folks to freedom With Mexico right there, to recieve them In 1910 it was Mexican men, with Pancho Villa and Zapata Fighting for Tierra, Libertad techo With Adelitas on the Front Lines with Bullets across their pecho In the year 1946, it was the Mendez family that fought against segregation in schools 'Cause before that, they treated us like fools Pushing us out into gangs, wars and drugs And then get they get pissed off at us? When we become crips and bloods Traviesos, zoot suiters, pachuchos, folkloristas, punks, bomberas Jaraneras in the heat, jaraneros with a bomb ass-beat Talkin' about what's really going on in the streets In the '60s, the streets of Oakland California, Black Panthers organized for answers Young lords in New York fought against wars The stonewall rebellion remained true for the rights of the LGBTQ Aim who was down with native rights with no shame in their game Brown Berets in L.A learning how to fight, and doing what's right In the campos of California, Fillipinos were the 1st ones to lay down the Boycott Screaming in Solidarity, "Isang bag sak!" "One rise, one fall, you come for one, you come for all!" And today, Arizona and Alabama, they don't play Carving out racist laws like it's make out of clay I stand with Emmitt, Trayvon, Oscar, and Bell With my mentor, Mumia up in the cell Telling you, "I'd rather be blind than to stay quiet on a day" "Where my people are hunt down like prey" (My people) "Cause my ability to breathe is directly connected to my ability to see It's not about me, never was, never will be It's about "We" It's time to move, y'all (My people) it's movement time!