FL¥ OH-B! - Fighting For Our Rights/Reality Check lyrics

[Chorus] Fighting for our rights Fighting for our rights Yeah, we fighting for our rights Day and night, man we fighting for our rights [Verse I] We run the world but we're stuck in the house They limit us from our kitchen to our blouse Our goal is simple, we just want out So lemme tell you what feminism's all about It all started with the Feminine Mystique Claiming that the housewife was an antique Working all day, 55 hours a week Just to keep the house pretty organized and neat? Girrrrrrl, we need equality man The N.O.W. establish that fam Forget s**ist stuff, forget Miss USA And start providing us with some dang equal pay Move past that, lift the birth control ban I mean who's baby is it, for sure not the man's We're the second wave feminists, and we ain't leaving And if you can't deal with that, either take it or leave it (Chorus) [Verse II] Lemme take my whole family ‘cross the border So we can live in the American fervor No, the white man has taken everything Our cattle, our land, and even our king But no, Chicago is the place to go We have rights guranteed by Guadalupe Hidalgo The Americans are mad, can't you see? Never ever forget what happened at the Wounded Knee I can see where you're coming from, they do discriminate But how'd you survive, how do you facilitate? Nonviolence will not be the way to riot We must show them true power, go ahead and try it But Gandhi did not need violence at all We will protest without tearing down the wall We want autonomy on our own reservation Give us our rights, let us act as our own nation (Chorus) [Verse III] It all started all the way back at Reconstruction We all got freed, thanks to the Union But Andrew Johnson and the Ku Klux Klan Made that seem like it never happened Going back to the 60s, times have barely changed We're still out here working for minimum wage We can't sit near our bros, we gotta be apart It's time for a change, shoutout to Rosa Parks! But maintain the peace, keep it all nonviolent Gandhi made it through, but he kept it valiant There is more than one way to show Black Power So put away the rifles and the gunpowder Spread the boy cotts, the sit-ins, and Freedom Rides This whole movement has to spread nationwide We got the strongest people on our side We gotta tell em we wanna make everything right Malcolm X, Marshall, and even MLK With these guys on our side, you know we'll be okay We're gonna take over Birmingham by night We're gonna hold it down cause we're fighting for our rights Brown vs the Board of Education Wasn't for nothing it helped change the nation Pack your bags, we're gonna head to DC We have a dream, better get ready Kennedy (Chorus) ______________________________________________ [Part II: Reality Check] [Verse] LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 But we're still out here fighting for our rights in the postwar How am I supposed even begin feeling united When all this hate between brothers is still being ignited Yeah, the Civil Rights Movement was amazing but for what cause People still get discriminated against even despite the law Not in the same way but in a parallel tone We're fighting overseas, but there's already a war at home Discrimination and equality are two separate terms We got rid of one, but other still roams this earth JFK was inspired by the efforts of the movement But not everyone was willing to go and submit So that's why today we have wars in Baltimore and Ferguson Why all the efforts of these movements is becoming undone Because we might have taken care of the race issue But the whole thing is deeper that something you can stick your teeth into So if you're listening to this, I hope you make a difference in the world today Because this isn't something that we can just put away If you want change to happen man you gotta go ahead and do it yourself And if this nation's gonna change everyone needs a reality check now, for real [Outro]