Jaleel jones jr - Recon$truction Rap lyrics

​ You are now about to witness the strength of historical knowledge They gave us 40 acres They gave us a mule High percentage of dyin' man You couldn't refuse At lease Grant won the vote That's what they would say With bein' black and all I could die any day The endangerment of blacks With all this wild violence A riot caused by white haters Just make some compromises We thought it was all over Then the Ku Klux came along Reppin' white supremacy Grant saw nothing wrong Well I did I saw it But my opinion ain't mean squat All they had to do was book them Maybe arrest them for life They gave us 30 acres They gave us a mule We said we don't want this But they gave Us more tools We said we want out And they charged us for ever grain So we stayed in the cotton field So we can try to feed our fam When 500k black men voted The whites were in shock Thus began a racist up-war Where the black guy gets shot We thought threats from white supremacist Was only just a threat But now that I look back The reconstruction was not a success