The Racist Lyrics by Boogie Down Productions

The Racist Lyrics


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    I've been taught to respect my elders and behave
    Even if when they were young they sold slaves
    Truth and understandin' is what i crave
    In the land of the thief, home of the slave
    Turn your page to a brief demonstration
    Cos now in '90 it's strictly information i'm givin'
    Teachin' on a regular basis
    Today's lecture is about the racist
    We're not out to exaggerate or diss him
    But show the symptoms and facts of racism
    Understand the racist ain't equal
    There's about five different types of racist people
    First of the five different types of cases
    Is the individual brought up racist
    Here you have young men and women
    Brought up in the great white way opinion
    This opinion introduced by the parent
    To the civilised becomes transparent
    The civilised man could look through the faces
    Make the analysis and see the racist
    Number two case which y'all must hear
    Is the individual racist out of fear
    Here you have people that fear the african
    And conjure up new ways of trappin' him
    Number three is the unconscious racist
    Not knowin' they're racist they invade your spaces
    They say, "i'm not a racist, i'm not a bigot"
    Yet they allow it to go on and won't admit it
    Number four is the money racist
    The one that used the topics of sheer economics
    They say, "owning a business isn't for the black man
    He don't want that", yet they went and took his land
    Damn, that's like a rock in a hard place
    You don't have your land yet this ain't your space
    America was built by every other race
    Except the european that runs this place
    What a waste, america's doomed
    To be overthrown by the righteous real soon
    But last but not least racial prejudice
    Is the black man speakin' out of ignorance
    Whitey this and ching-chow that
    Is not how the intelligent man acts
    You can't blame the whole white race
    For slavery, cos this ain't the case
    A large sum of white people died with black
    Tryin' hard to fight racial attacks
    The media wants you to think that no whites
    Really fought and died for civil rights
    But once we have a true sense of history
    You'll see this too as a mystery
    If black and white didn't argue the most
    They could clearly see the government's screwin' 'em both.

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