Luther Jackson lived in the apartment above me. We smoked on the stairs, tell me stories that the white boys never hear. Like he found this sign, he moved North in 1949. On his 10th birthday daddy took him to to the Jackie Robinson play. It was a picture perfect day, in the and the hate. He didnt understand why all those people would say awful things. His daddy said pay no attention to them, and watch the man play. The one man in the baseball field was better in every way. My daddy if you wanna win in this world, you gotta beat em at the wrong game. Luther Jackson went to law school in 1963. In the summer between he worked in with Martin Luther King. He met a girl on a summer night; he fell hard when they saw each eyes. There people in town that really didnt like that he was black and she was white. They her in the ditch, a little outside of town; some stupid man was blastin about it, so Luther beat him down. He looked him in the eye, spit in his face and turned and away. He knew he was than all the hate! He knew he was than all the pain! He knew that theres a time to and a time to walk away! He knew until he 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. Luther moved out West to live, when his wife away. He lives right next to his son, so he can watch his grandchild play. Luther Jackson Green, watched night with me. We put a man in the White 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 that night in his sleep, but he lived long enough to see, become the kind of place he always wanted it to be. He said you could forget the day, that we beat em at the wrong game! Yeah just Jackie Robinson. (Just like Jackie Robinson!) Gotta be bigger than all the hate! (Just Jackie Robinson!) Gotta be better than all the pain! (Just like Robinson!) Gotta find a way! (Just like Jackie Robinson!) beat em at the wrong game! (Just like Jackie Robinson!) Gotta beat em at the wrong game! (Just Jackie Robinson!) Gotta beat em at the wrong game! (Just Jackie Robinson!) (Just like Robinson!)