Anthem · Barking Justice Music
Still Not Gone
From Nixon to Trump’s disgrace, we march with fire, and we won’t erase.
About this anthem
Still Not Gone is a ledger set to music. Kent State, Tuskegee, Katrina, Flint, the border, Iraq, January 6th. The anthem does not present them as a random list of American tragedies. It places them in the same unfinished record: harm committed, warnings ignored, responsibility evaded, and powerful people counting on the public to forget.
That is why it belongs on The Reckoning Hour. The program is not built to revisit outrage for its own sake. Its work is accountability: naming who benefited, who suffered, who lied, who enabled the harm, and what justice still requires. Still Not Gone carries that discipline into every verse. Each stanza returns to a specific wound and the failure to answer for it.
The bridge makes the pattern impossible to dismiss. Cages and silence. Poisoned pipes and dying breath. Knees on necks and corrupted verdicts. The events are different, but the machinery beneath them is familiar: power protects itself, institutions delay the reckoning, and time is used to turn public outrage into public amnesia.
But the anthem does not leave the listener in despair. It turns exhaustion into clarity, clarity into moral anger, and moral anger into responsibility. Its closing charge, “We name the names and we make it clear,” captures the purpose of The Reckoning Hour: preserve the record, connect the harms, and refuse to let waiting become acquittal.
Still Not Gone belongs here because it denies power its oldest defense: the belief that, eventually, everyone will move on.
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Lyrics
Verse 1
Four young lives fell in Ohio’s dirt, Peace signs silenced, blood and hurt. They called it chaos, but feared the truth, So Nixon’s rifles silenced the youth.
Tuskegee’s doctors watched men die, No cure, no care, just federal lies. Their names were lost to a file and pen, Their blood still screams from within.
Chorus
And still not gone, these crimes repeat, Katrina drowned in neglected streets. Flint drank poison, the border cried, And the ones in charge just let them die.
Verse 3
Bush lied, and Baghdad burned for oil, Powell’s shame in a poisoned coil. And Trump sat still while bodies fell, Mocked the masks, unleashed the hell.
Verse 4
January 6th was no damn show, Trump lit the match and watched it blow. No honor left in that red-capped crew, The flag they wave? It don’t wave for you. You can jail the voice, but not the cry, Burn the truth, but it won’t die. We’re not afraid, we’ve heard the call, You can break one, but not us all.
Bridge
I see your cowardice in cages and silence. In poisoned pipes and dying breath. In knees on necks and verdicts rigged. In every mother who can’t find justice. In every child held behind chain-link and fear. They jail the mothers who beg for light, And gas the youth who march for right. Their courts are bought, their truths conceal, We’ve seen enough. Enough’s enough. These wounds don’t heal.
Final Chorus
Still not gone, the reckoning’s here, We name the names and we make it clear. From Nixon to Trump’s disgrace, We march with fire—and we won’t erase.
Spoken
Barking Justice Music… I will not sit back and be afraid.
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Accountability Block
The Reckoning Hour
Still Not Gone opens the segment’s case file across five decades of harm that was excused, buried, or spun instead of answered for — the exact pattern The Reckoning Hour exists to interrupt, one name at a time.
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