備忘録 I am somebody : Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson :Supporting peaceful demonstration against Mr. George Floyd’s death, I will post protest songs against racism from my library for 30 days.フロイドさんの死に対する平和的なデモを支持し、向こう30日間、人種差別と闘うためのプロテストソングをポストします。

Day 6  Introduction to Wattstax concert /”I Am Somebody” – Rev. Jesse Jackson 1965

I am …[I am!]

Somebody… [somebody!]

I am … [I am!]

Somebody … [somebody!]

I may be poor … [I may be poor!]

But I am … [but I am!] 

Somebody … [somebody!]

I may be on welfare … [I may be on welfare!]

But I am … [but I am!]

Somebody … [somebody!]

I may be unskilled … [I may be unskilled!]

But I am … [But I am!]

Somebody … [somebody!]

I am … [I am!]

Black … [black!]

Beautiful … [beautiful!]

Proud … [proud!]

And must be respected … [and must be respected]!

I must be protected … [I must be protected!]

I am God’s child … [I am God’s child]

When we stand together … what time is that? … [Nation time!]

When we stand together … what time is that? … [Nation time!]

What time is that … [nation time!]

What time is that … [nation time!]

Mr Kim Weston … the black national anthem.

I Am – Somebody was written in the 1950s by Reverend William Holmes Borders, Sr., senior pastor at Wheat Street Baptist Church and civil rights activist in Atlanta, Georgia.