
I was born in the South where most choose to sleep.
Most live in a dreamworld that they want to keep.
A white privileged dream where they make the rules,
Rewriting history once taught in all schools.
Can’t teach about slavery, Jim Crowe segregation,
Dr. King’s marches, that changed our whole nation.
Can’t talk about race because that’s about blame.
White privileged deniers don’t like feeling shame.
Why can’t they admit that our system is racist?
Our country can’t thrive if we do not face this.
You can’t enslave people then put up a fight,
Be forced to free them then not make things right.
We owe the ones passed and their kin who survive
Their vote and the means to allow them to thrive,
We must teach true history so it can’t repeat.
Make voting easy so sleepers can’t cheat.
Take back free speech the sleepers revoked.
Let them scream in their “nightmare” called truth, til they’re woke.























Only black people know how much pain they have suffered, endurance has kept them alive. Through enslavement, Jim Crow, racist systems injustice they’ve had to be strong to survive.



