The brothers got mad they had a right to having seen years of struggle nullified in twenty-three minutes of brutality and nineteen minutes of deliberation Suddenly Rosa Parks' sacrifice was rendered inconsequential for segregation was self-imposed and they stood together a tight mob, monochrome exhaling an air of violence poised, guarded and whereas before they would beckon me to join them to laugh and stomp today there would be no revelry And when I approached they shifted uneasily in their places averting their eyes from the Devil's gaze as Perseus from Medusa and only after I lingered on at the edge of that seething mass did the one best known to me step forward and say "we cannot speak to you today" and although I had known I was white every day of my life I had never before then realized what that looked like through the eyes of someone who wasn't
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Black Socialist Rappers of America
I preach M.L.K. every day Brother Malcolm knew the way is that all u got 2 say talkin' violence 4 your pay that ain't y I came 2 play ain't y I joined the fray ain't y I mosh the stage write rhymz across the page damn straight I share your rage we grip the bars of the same cage if u ain't wit me ur against me ain't that how the story goes and these beatz preach the same message treble hookin' bass straight 2 the flowz Brotherz ... come together Sisterz ... show us the way Motherz ... teach your children Fatherz ... what can I say I don't find glamour in a gun though I once thought I might saw Boyz in the Hood and Menace try relate 2 the plight but folx keep killin' their own people with the crak rok and such leanin' on what's (his)tory like itz sum kind of crutch never been above impoverished in the Great Income Poll but that has never kept me from achievin' my goalz sure I slung a little ganja try 2 make my endz meet but my friendz slung sax bak @ me so it in essence came free point is us poh'z in this 2gether we're @ odds with the Man and we'll all B slavez 4 ever in their bourgeoisie plan friendz 2day it is no different then it waz in the past poh sellin' out each other 2 the dominant class