Key: A major
Verse 1
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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
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In the land of the thief home of the slave
demonstration
'Cause now in '90 it's strictly
information I'm givin'
Teachin' on a regular basis
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Today's lecture is about The Racist
or diss him
But show the symptoms and
facts of racism
Understand The Racist ain't equal
There's about five different
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types of racist people
Is the individual brought up racist
Here you have young men and women
Brought up in the Great
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To the civilized becomes
transparent
The civilized man could look
through the faces
Make the analysis and see
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Is the individual racist out of fear
Here you have people that
fear the African
And conjure up new ways
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of trappin' him
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
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on and won't admit it
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",
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yet they went and took his land
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
Verse 10
overthrown by the
righteous real soon
But last but not least racial prejudice
Is the black man speakin'
out of ignorance
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Is not how the intelligent man acts
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You can't blame the whole white race
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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
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sense of history
You'll see this too as a mystery
If black and white didn't
argue the most
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They could clearly see the government's screwin' 'em
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