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[aid] => mick
[title] => L-I-S-T-E-N
[time] => 2009-06-02 18:32:06
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[bodytext] => Can you picture this? Peace, love, beauty, and bliss? Can you fast forward? And see a fist? Pounding Screaming for black power amiss? Back to the bliss People living together in love Not bothering anyone Nothing closer than blood Man comes home From hard day at work Too see his whole family Laying in dirt White men Throwing the whole village around Puts the heart on the boat And burns the village down Short Hell later We find ourselves on new land It seems The power in charge Is the white man He screams and pushes us around Now I’m in the weeds Throwing hoes in the ground He repeats a word I think it’s called Nigger But I can feel the hate from his mouth Insulting my way of living Slavery is over But they still have a way To put us down A word that incites violence When it utters a sound Bottled in frustration Trying to get a job But these Jim Crow Laws Is sparking angry mobs Even though we’re legally No longer slaves Equality and justice Is something over we slave Some people are bitter Stuck in their ways Wish they could go back To the good ol’ days When hard work was done Without retort And our nation was thriving Off im- And exports They can’t stand To see us walking down the street And a mere whistle from Emmit Can get you swept off your feet So they came with a form of harassment No one could beat The system wasn’t enough So they came with the heat Nigger Takes us back to the day With Abraham Lincoln Playing the White House game Less than nothing As valuable as the dirt we were plucking But retaliation Anywhere south of Kentucky? If your mother got your body back You were considered lucky Fast forward Now the word is used day to day As if some new Hip hop Way of slang When I see my buddy If I shout it with an A! Apparently the root of the word Is taken away A term of endearment Something only we can say But if a white person says it The love is taken away Its offensive Reason for young people to fight But said the same word 36 times last night! Tell me How is this any different From racism? To say one group of people Ain’t equal Because the sequel Of a word Is not as violent as the prequel But if the white people say it It has to be the prequel Offensive For black people It has to be the sequel Racism A meaning of a word does not change Depending on the color of his lips Of which they are saying If its offensive in the first place Its offensive to all! If it’s a term of endearment Then it’s a term for all! Be consistent Reconsider But what do you do When its someone’s way of living? When they portray themselves As the glamorous life of a thug I personally Call a spade a spade And a flush a flush If the word is a term of endearment Then why is it used To refer to a minority Acting a fool? Which one is it? One side wants to say That’s what I call my true friends That I will ride for Until the day my life ends Now that’s real STOP BEING BIASED Now that’s real They summed up love for another In one word One feel They took something ugly And changed it to something to call each other To show I will die for you And we will die for each other NOW THAT’S REAL Old people get mad if you want But we listened to your side The least you can do Is to listen to us AND I MEAN L-I-S-T-E-N My only problem with this Young way of looking at it Is when white people say the same thing They have to creep Like they’re in the attic Trying not to wake up Good ol’ Uncle Larry The grown people look at it completely different The root of the word Is too ugly To be used in public The hatred behind A word to put us down Can not be changed Or twist around It’s just another way to divide the generation Like the rap battle Pants battle And simple etiquette basics How do I feel? I’m not quite sure! But these grown people can’t be so single minded! To have a funeral for the word! And us young people have to understand If it offends some people that much Maybe it should just be put away Here’s my opinion This conflict will never be solved Because it’s a fight between Grown people that think they know everything And young people nothing That they’re right So they won’t truly L-I-S-T-E-N And young people That can’t articulate and penetrate The mind of a renegade I’ve always been a very open minded person And I can see the good behind the word The honest attempts To do nothing worse Then say a trendy word But I can’t get on For attacking white people For saying the same thing And the hurt and pain it brings others Is not equal to the other thing So no I don’t think we should say the word Not because its as TERRIBLE as its made out to be But it bothers others to the point Of violence and PERIL that is not necessary to be [comments] => 1 [counter] => 160 [topic] => 64 [informant] => B-eezy313 [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 9 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => ambiguous )
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