The Racist Lyrics - Boogie Down Productions

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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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