Key: G minor
Verse 1
which is a racist society
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No matter how much you hear
it talk about democracy
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It's as racist as South Africa
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or as ra cist as Portugal
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Or as racist as any other
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America preaches integration and
This is the only difference
They don't practice what they preach,
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whereas South Africa preaches and practices the same thing
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lets me know where he stands
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Even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up
Verse 2
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I don't agree with him because I'm not
a follower of Muhammad myself
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I think that all people have been
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mistreated in some form or another
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But I don't agree with him,
own conscience
I think the main problem of most negroes
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is that they feel sorry for themselves
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Than they would be if they didn't feel so
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sorry for themselves
Verse 3
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If Martin Luther King,
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Roy Wilkins or any of these uh compromising negroes
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Who say exactly what the white man wants
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to hear is interviewed anywhere
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In the country, you don't get anybody
But whenever a black man stands up and says
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something that white people don't like
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Then the first thing that white man does is
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To say something to offset
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what has just been said
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This is natural, but it is done
Verse 4
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I just
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think you've given up
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(Given up on what?) On the ideal
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of an integrated America
The dream of Martin Luther King,
I think you've given up
Verse 5
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You know, it's in teresting how
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white folks sit here thinking
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That I have a reason to lie to you,
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And you are so wonderful,
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and I am so ashamed of my words
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That I have to twist and turn
Please, you're not dealing
with that kind of man
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