Luther Jackson Green lived in the above me. We smoked cigarettes on the stairs, tell me stories that the boys never hear. Like he found this sign, he moved North in 1949. On his birthday daddy took him to town to the Jackie Robinson play. It was a picture perfect day, in the and the hate. He didnt understand why all those people say such awful things. His daddy said pay no attention to them, turnaround and the man play. The one black man in the baseball field was better in way. My daddy said if you wanna win in this world, you beat em at the wrong game. Luther Jackson Green went to law in 1963. In the between he worked in Alabama with Martin Luther King. He met a girl on a summer night; he hard when they saw each others eyes. There were people in town that really like that he was black and she was white. They found her in the ditch, a little outside of town; some stupid man was blastin it, so beat him down. He looked him in the eye, spit in his face and turned and walked away. He knew he was better all the hate! He he was bigger than all the pain! He knew that a time to fight and a time to walk away! He knew he changed the rules, ohh yeah they beat em at the wrong game! He did lose that feeling inside. You could hear it in his voice; you see it in his eyes. moved out West to live, when his wife passed away. He right next door to his son, so he can watch his grandchild play. Luther Jackson Green, watched election night me. We put a black man in the House, a thing he never thought hed see. though he never cried, I could see tears in his eyes. He had dreamed about moment, every single day of his life. Yeah Luther died that in his sleep, but he lived long enough to see, America become the kind of place he always it to be. He said you could never the day, that we beat em at the wrong game! Yeah like Jackie Robinson. (Just like Jackie Robinson!) Gotta be bigger than all the hate! (Just Jackie Robinson!) Gotta be better all the pain! (Just like Jackie Robinson!) find a better way! (Just like Jackie Robinson!) Gotta beat em at the wrong game! (Just Jackie Robinson!) Gotta beat em at the wrong game! (Just like Robinson!) Gotta beat em at the wrong game! (Just Jackie Robinson!) (Just like Robinson!)