Re: [A-List] However, I think Rev. Wright missed an opportunity to advance unity

[Leighm <the.buffalo.in.the.midst@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Gang warfare, is right around the corner
Gang warfare your sister and your brother
Gang warfare you killing one another
Gang warfare why don't you help each other"


bar@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

" Alicia Keys says that gangsta rap is a strategem of the CIA to 
demoralise the black youth, misdirect them and to destroy potential 
leaders in the black youth. "

Gangsta Rap as RE-marketed by SONY/BMG is that. TEK-9 and all that poser trash. I'm not sure the same can be said for the whole "genre".

F'rinstance: http://leighm.net/media/hiphopnothippop.html
(on the sidebar of my site http://leighm.net/ as a popout player if you prefer)

Audio Source: http://www.archive.org/details/PoliticalHipHopMix



I also highly recommend "Gang Warfare", by Steel Pulse.. Reggae Rappin':

Gun shot fly around
In dis a warfare

Gang Warfare
Messing up this town and country
Don't you know it does not pay
To join this bad man posse

Gang warfare
Messing up this town and country
Don't you know it does not pay
To join this bad man posse

In a Brooklyn
All this shooting around
It is surely
Coming like a cowboy town

Gangs and gunmen
Got their finger on their trigger
And you can bet your life
They're here to take no prisoners

Gang warfare
Messing up this town and country
Don't you know it does not pay
Hey yeh yeh hey yeh eh hey

Gang warfare, is right around the corner
Gang warfare your sister and your brother
Gang warfare you killing one another
Gang warfare why don't you help each other

Cold blooded killings
Don't make no sense to me
We should be civilised
And save humanity
Why don't you wake up
> From your sleep and from your slumber
We've got to stop this madness
> From taking over

Gang warfare
Messing up this town and country
Don't you know it does not pay
Hey yeh yeh hey yeh eh hey


RAP
Dem a run dem a come
Fe shoot up the dance
Dem a run dem a come
Fe shoot up the dance

Dem gwaan like cowboy quick pon de draw
Dem want respect and to be big bout ya
Dem a worship gun instead of Almighty JAH
And a wear gold chain and drive fancy car
Call demself posse, gwaan like mafia
And a model demself off a nuff gangster
Capone, Babyface and Dillinger
But history book seh dem never get very far
Now dem full a bullet hole and favour tea strainer
So listen carefully and consider
When you shooting up your bredren and
A kill you sister
You better take a trip to South Africa
And hide inna de bush like
A freedom foghter
And help Black people get liberation
And get respect and I will call
You a DON
Nuff respect and I will call you a man
Dem a run
Dem a come
Nuff respect
Get respect



Leigh


> But why should he "forgive"policies and prejudices that continue to make
> the lives of most blacks misery? Why should he forgive the American
> society for tolerating the assassination of every effective black leader
> that has ever arisen? Why should he forgive the fact that 50% of all black
> men in New York City are unemployed or that most of the prison population
> are blacks? Why should he forgive? Shouldnt he be asking for change, for
> action, to an apology to blacks. Howe can a nation move on without truth
> and reconciliation for without truth there can be no reconciliation.
> Alicia Keys says that gangsta rap is a strategem of the CIA to demoralise
> the black youth, misdirect them and to destroy potential leaders in the
> black youth. The CIA is the org that flooded the ghettos with all that
> coaine to undermine the black society. Where is the apology for al those
> lives destroyed.
>
> No, Rev Wright's ,mistake is not in refusing to "forgive" it is in not
> stating the fact that the black and white working class alike are treated
> the same way and that just as the society has destroyed the black working
> class it has also destroyed the white working class.
>
> Chris
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> > On the other hand, I must say that I think Rev. Wright missed an
> > historic opportunity in his speeches to the NAACP here in Detroit last
> > night, and evidently at the press club today.
> >
> > He , as a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, could ( should ?)
> > have made a speech about forgiveness, reconciliation and loving thine
> > enemy with respect to racism in America.   He has already thundered Old
> > Testament righteous indignation and condemnation of slavery, Jim Crow
> > and racism.  We know and have said he is  correct in those criticisms.
> > But why not follow Barack Obama's lead ( since he is only getting all
> > this attention because of his association with Obama)and preach on the
> > natural theme for a Christian minister of extending your hand to those
> > who have wronged "you", forgiving trespasses against "you",  seeking a
> > new day of unity between Blacks and whites,  taking the first step (
> > again) to get beyond racism. This would also be a revival of a theme
> > that Martin Luther King, jr. was famous for from his "I Have a Dream"
> > speech.  Sure King was also sharply critical of all that is wrong with
> > America in his Riverside Church speech, et al.  But King also had an
> > extraordinary theme of reconciliation between the races.
> >
> > Ultimately, unity of Blacks and Whites is necessary for the working
> > class to advance the class struggle.
> >
> > By this approach, Wright could have helped Obama. Wright has already
> > stood firmly against racism. He wouldn't be selling out. He could have
> > used his status as a steadfast anti-racist to advance principled Black
> > -White unity, which is in the ultimate best interest of Black people.
> >
> > Charles
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