I Am (Defiant)

i am, become... i am the seat on the bus Rosa Parks would not leave.. i am the fires of anger when Martin Luther King was killed. i am the grassy knoll, where the true killer stood. i am the Little Bighorn, and Crazy Horse weeping... i am the men that built the bombs, and all the faceless souls screaming through their long sleepless nights... i am the brothers that killed each other in the long Civil War... i am the slaves set free, i am the Native Americans sent to live in poverty on reservations in the name of a white god... i am the farm worker exploited, the coal miner who died... i am the rats and the filth of tenements and trailers... i am the blues hand picked, moonshine made in the hills... i am the grandfather who built his house with his own hands. i am the rage of the common, i am America defiant, i am, become....