Somebody's hurting my brother

Alternate Title:

Somebody's hurting my neighbor

First Line:

Somebody's hurting my brother and it's gone on far too long

Artist & Tune

Composed by:

Yara Allen

Reference

Genre:

composed folk US

Topic:

Hope & Struggle

Culture:

African-American

About the Song

Somebody's hurting my brother & it’s gone on far too long
Gone on far too long, gone on far too long
Somebody's hurting my brother & it’s gone on far too long
And we won’t be silent anymore

C - - - / G - C - ://

Somebody’s poisoning our waters…
Somebody’s ignoring the homeless…
Somebody’s hurting my sisters & it’s…
Somebody's hurting my neighbors...
Somebody's hurting our children...
Somebody's building a wall...
Somebody's hurting my people...

Yara Allen is Director of Cultural Arts & Theomusicologist for Repairers of the Breach. She is active in the Moral Mondays Movement. The movement in North Carolina, spearheaded by Barber and the NAACP, is working to reclaim moral language from the uses of empire. Hope is the foundation of building large coalitions to fight against what seems to be incredible odds.