Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Writings on Disobedience and Democracy, artist - Vinnie Paz. Album song The Cornerstone of the Corner Store, in the genre Иностранный рэп и хип-хоп
Date of issue: 27.10.2016
Age restrictions: 18+
Record label: Enemy Soil
Song language: English
Writings on Disobedience and Democracy |
«We have to stop thinking that we must have military solutions |
To the problems we face in the world» |
Yeah |
«The solutions that we need are…» |
Picking up where we left off |
«…dealing of sickness, disease, and hunger |
Now that’s fundamental |
If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists |
Which is what war is» |
They told you World War II was a people’s war |
Logic should have told them it was Imperialist war |
18 million served in the armed forces |
10 million more overseas — that’s enormous |
25 million workers paid for war bonds |
All of the while people question why the war’s on |
There was an undercurrent of reluctance |
There were under-publicized signs of resistance |
Hitler’s Germany was unspeakable evil |
But let’s discuss real quick what we did to people |
We opposed the Haitian revolution |
We turned Guam, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii into institutions |
Pretended to help Cuba win freedom from Spain |
This country’s built on the blood of other people’s pain |
Blacks is looking at anti-Semitism in Germany |
And saw the situation here was mirroring it perfectly |
We appeased Hitler all throughout the '30s |
Only years later we pretended we was worried |
Roosevelt was hesitant to be gritty |
And caused a resolution to be buried in committee |
The main interest was never to stop fascism |
But advancing Imperialist interests of that prism |
Roosevelt ain’t care about oppression of the Jews |
The power was the priority, I’m telling you the truth |
Hitler not the reason that we entered the land |
Roosevelt was mad that we got hit by Japan |
Historians will tell you he provoked that shit |
He told lies in attempts to sugar coat that shit |
In ‘45 troops were jammed onto the Queen Mary |
The blacks were stowed down in the depths of the same ferry |
See there’s a parallel you have to understand |
That they wanted them to fight but wouldn’t treat them like a man |
Industrial mobilization had a few divided |
The economic royalists denounced and derided |
The irony of victory was heavily a price |
The war ended, 3 million men was in strike |
There’s no peace in a world of capitalism |
Nazi eugenics economic rationalism |
The lesson was that war solved problems of control |
Regardless if it causes any problems for the soul |
The black revolt in the '50s came as a surprise |
It shouldn’t have after we took so many of their lives |
You can’t erase the memory of an oppressed people |
Reparation doesn’t make it any less evil |
Some black folks joined the Communist party |
Richard Wright spoke of disillusionment with the body |
The party was accused of exploiting black people |
Angelo Herndon felt everything was equal |
He was arrested they convicted for insurrection |
How the fuck it’s insurrection I call it dissension |
Gave him 5 years when all he wanted was protection |
There was other black men that made the same connection |
Benjamin Davis defended Herndon as a savior |
Then Paul Robeson; |
he only magnified the danger |
Harry Truman had to deal with the militant mood |
But how the fuck that gonna work when he a racist too? |
In '54 they said they ended segregation |
10 years later no changes |
Revolt was always minutes away about to bust |
Rosa Parks refused the black section of the bus |
The freedom riders were spreading across the nation |
They went to jail for marching and fighting discrimination |
FBI stood by, Justice Department stood by |
While civil rights workers were beaten, they just stood by |
3 civil rights workers, 2 black and 1 white |
Arrested in Philadelphia, Mississippi one night |
They were released, beaten with chains and shot to death |
There were arrests made but it was not confessed |
The national government remained silent |
The president wouldn’t defend blacks against violence |
Civil rights laws were passed but they were fraud |
Equality was enforced poorly or was ignored |
Martin Luther King’s speech floored whoever heard it |
5 years later he was targeted and murdered |
In '65 the Watts Riots burned into the streets |
The black man would no longer turn the other cheek |
The Black Panther Party scared Nixon |
But that did nothing to change his position |
A new black consciousness was born and still alive |
And that came from the will to survive |
This is the part where I would talk about Vietnam |
But me and Rugged Man we already made a song |
By the '70s distrust had spread across the nation |
Basic discontent political alienation |
55,000 died in the war of moral shame |
And then Watergate was added to the hall of pain |
The Watergate burglaries was rather complicated |
But in the end mostly all of them exonerated |
Nixon had CIA a G. Gordon Liddy |
Lie about the Democratic National Committee |
But eventually they all flipped on him |
And told the Senate that they had a lot of shit on him |
After that it was a swift and a sudden fall |
Nixon resigned before they could impeach the ball |
They got rid of Nixon but they kept the system |
His foreign policy still remains in position |
Corporate interests still remained in position |
His closest advisors remain in position |
Vietnam recession and unrest |
All adds up to a motherfucking mess |
After Watergate and Vietnam |
There was a deep economic insecurity in this world of ours |
Environmental deterioration took its toll |
A cultural violence upon the families took its toll |
Problems couldn’t be solved without bold changes |
But no major party candidates proposed changes |
American political tradition held fast |
Urban communities turning into hell fast |
Black folks are bitterly disappointed with Carter |
Opposed federal aid the poor people didn’t bother |
Reagan got elected and he built a military up |
A trillion dollars later |
And this motherfucker dummy up |
He cut benefits for the poor to get the money up |
Social security, disability went belly up |
Unemployment grew in the Reagan years |
30 million people unemployed in the Reagan years |
Welfare became an object of attack |
Especially if you was latino or you was black |
I’m just scratching the surface of what was wrong |
We’ll pick the conversation up in the next song |
To be continued… |
You can’t be neutral on a moving train |
I told y’all before |
You can’t believe everything that your teacher tell you |
Who is your teacher? |
Your teacher just learned what they was taught |
How do you know what they was taught was correct? |
Y’kna mean? |
Dig into the real history of this country |
And the fact that it was built on blood |
We gonna go around for a third time |
But for now I’m just blessing y’all with this one |
A continuation of the first |
You can’t be neutral on a moving train |
Pazienza |
Howard Zinn thank you for teaching the people |
Rest in Peace |
It’s Pazienza baby |