Bring black the revolution
	When every soul brother and soul sister
	Were warriors to fight the cause.
	And the SNCC sit-ins were befitting
	To stop the lynchings and Jim-Crow laws.
 
	Bring black the revolution
	When giving emancipation to the colored people was indisputable!
	When racism was challenged by a conscience cataclysm,
	And being EBONY became so-o-o-o beautiful.
 
	Bring black the revolution
	When the Freedom Riders traveled
	from Selma to Montgomery
	To march and beat on that Truth and Justice drum;
	When Afro-solidarity toppled oppression and austerity
	With a temerity called "We Shall Overcome". 
 
	Bring black the revolution
	When Thurgood stood and argued supremely
	That segregation was a ghastly gurney that civil society
	   must dispel.
	And every mean case of brutality was dismantled with keen legality
	By a defiant giant named Attorney Hollowell.   
 
	Bring black the revolution
	When civic protests were expressed
	In the angry verse of Giovanni, McKay and Baraka. 
	When young bloods wore saber tooths and dashikis
	As they chanted the "Go get 'em" anthems
	From Lumumba, Kenyatta and Chaka.  
 
	Bring black the revolution
	When Angela Davis was the bravest
	To step over the apartheid lines.
	And Martin Luther King wrote his letter
	From a Birmingham jail to assail
	The hatred of ignorant minds. 
 
	Bring black the revolution
	When Black Panthers like Huey and Hampton 
	Preached liberation and were pronged to raised their fists
	To defy America's wrongful colonization as black nationalists!
 
	Bring black the revolution
	When his "Soul On Ice" H-Rap Brown was spitting down;
	And Stokely Carmichael was breaking ground
	For his Soul City town.
	When "Right On!" and "Say It Loud!"
	Became our self-recognition to be self-endowed.
 
	Bring black the revolution
	That left the white-hooded knights/corporate enslavers 
 	   stunned and perplexed.
	When every ghetto heard its Magna Carta
	In the echoes and vehement text
	Of the martyr Malcolm X.
 
	Bring black the revolution
	When the Watts and Chicago riots
	Gave us the diet for rebellion and righteous zeal.
	When the Harlem Renaissance gave us
	The power and parlance like James Baldwin
	To "Go Tell It On The Mountain" still. 
	
	Bring black the revolution
	When heroes like James Meredith and Eldridge Cleaver
	Unmasked the false deceiver.
	And the teachings of  Mahatmus Ghandi
	Made each of us a nonviolent believer.
 
	Bring black the revolution
	When by BCN, C.O.R.E., and the Muslim Elijah,
	We were organized and instantly led.
	When our awakening against supremacy
	Became a  tour de force widespread.
 
	Bring black the revolution
	When we were the champions of a new humanity;
	And got assaulted often by water hoses and racial profanity.
	When our ire ignited the fire to knock over hypocritical political walls
   	   and to pry open economic doors locked ironclad;
	Bring black the revolution
	When we were so-o-o Super Fly and so-o-o Super Bad!