The New York Civil Liberties Union and American Civil Liberties Union hosted the annual benefit concert, “Broadway Stands Up for Freedom” for a sold-out crowd at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. In a first for the show, Broadway stars and performers honored the NYCLU and ACLU’s work by performing thirteen new songs about civil rights and liberties in the Trump era written expressly for the concert.
"The Great American Black & White"
Performed by Sean Green
Written by Georgia Stitt
Lyrics:
Liberals hate religion and the greedy corporations
Business hates the liberals and the poor
Poor folks need religion so they tend to be conservative,
Though liberals probably care about them more
After each election you’ve got all these evangelicals claiming God’s the only one who leads
But religion can be selfish, so you find these poor believers asking government to satisfy their needs
It’s all a circle
What’s wrong? Who’s right?
You didn’t come to hear me out; you came to fight.
It’s what we do now.
I bark, you bite.
The Great American Black and White
That hurricane remember?
There was Brooklyn underwater
People screamed for FEMA to appear
Liberals shouted outrage, started wars all over Facebook,
But the Mormons were the first ones who were here
You can keep religion and those politics of power
Sometimes I don’t know where to begin
If you don’t subscribe to any one group or another then you’re never on the outside looking in
It’s all a circle.
It’s all a game
There is resistance everywhere, but we’re all the same.
Go stake your claim now
Choose left, choose right
The Great American Black and White
Are you brave enough to say what you believe?
Even if it means you stand alone?
Heroes are the humans who see the other humans and dare beyond the things they’ve always known
It’s all a circle
It’s all a race until you look into your opposition’s face
And meet a person who could be right
That’s how we get beyond this blight
Of the Great American Black and White
