We was there when the story started, making history before we's artists
You know we's targets

from Lupe Fiasco (Ft. Dosage) – Friend of the People Lyrics on Rap Genius

True enough — enslaved blacks were first brought to the Americas in the sixteenth century

The writer David L. Cohn made a similar point in his 1935 book God Shakes Creation:

This land is first and foremost
his handiwork.
It was he who brought order
Out of primeval wilderness…
Wherever one looks in this land,
whatever one sees that is the work of man,
was erected by the toiling
straining bodies of blacks.

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