Um, it's 1972, an election year, and, once again, black people are running for their lives. Reasons are things like the King Alfred Plan. The concentration camps that we used during the second World War to house oriental-Americans are now being refurbished to, um, confine their new residents-I. e. black people. Brothers and sisters, there is a place for you in America. This is the King Alfred Plan
Places are being prepared and readied night and day, night and day The white boy's plan is being readied night and day, night and day Listen close to what rap say about traps like Allenwood P. A Already legal in D. C. to preventatively detain you and me How long you think it's going to be before even our dreams ain't free? You think I exaggerate? Check out Allenwood P. A Night and day, night and day, the white boy's scheming night and day The Jews and Hitler come to mind. They thought the slavery far behind But white paranoia is here to stay. Check it out. Night and day What you think about the King Alfred Plan? You ain't heard? Where you been, man? If I may paraphrase the government notice reads "Should there at anytime become a clear and present danger initiated by any radical element threatening the operation of the government of the United States of America, members of this radical element shall be transported to detention centers until such time as their threat has been eliminated-code King Alfred" "Bullshit, " I bet you say. "There ain't no Allenwood P. A. " And people ain't scheming night and day, night and day, night and day There will be, without the Motown sound and Thunderbird, wallowing in the echoes of Malcolm's words, there must be black unity, there must be black unity For, in the end, unity will be forced upon us, and we upon it and each other Locked in cages, pants hemmed in, shoulder-to-shoulder, arms outstretched For a crust of bread, watermelon mirages, an oasis that does not exist Conjured up by the bubbling stench of unwashed bodies in unsanitary quarters Concrete and barbed wire, babies screaming, stumbling around In a mental circle because you never had the courage to be black Night and day, night and day, blanketed, stifled A salty taste in your mouth from the blood oozing from cracks and wooly heads Red pools becoming thicker than syrup slow down your face Birds matted by the life force sprung loose from wells Welled deep by the enforcers of mock justice of the red, white, and blue In the end, unity will be thrust upon us. In the end, unity will be thrust upon us Night and day, night and day, night and day, night and day Blackness is calling you now-let us unite because of love instead of hate Let us unite on our own and not because of barbed-wire death You dare not ignore the things I say because Whitey is planning night and day, night and day Night and day, night and day