The Poverty of Philosphy-Immortal Technique

[ti:The Poverty Philosophy] [ar:Immortal Technique] [al:Revolutionary Vol. 1 (Bonus Ed] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Poverty of Philosphy - Immortal Technique [00:03.04]Most of my Latino and black people [00:04.80]Who are struggling to get food clothes and shelter in the hood [00:07.42] [00:08.04]Are so concerned with that [00:08.91] [00:09.90]Philosophising about freedom and socialist democracy [00:12.90]Is usually unfortunately beyond their rationale [00:15.20] [00:16.15]They don't realize that America can't exist [00:18.26]Without separating them from their identity [00:19.81] [00:20.38]Because if we had some sense of who we really are [00:22.57]There's no way in hell we'd allow this country [00:25.25]To push it's genocidal consensus on our homelands [00:27.49] [00:28.37]This ignorance exists but it can be destroyed [00:30.68] [00:31.99]Ni**a talk about change [00:32.99] [00:33.55]And working within the system to achieve that [00:35.60] [00:36.23]The problem with always being a conformist is that [00:39.04]When you try to change the system from within [00:41.10]It's not you who changes the system [00:43.34]It's the system that will eventually change you [00:46.08]There is usually nothing wrong with compromise in a situation [00:49.27]But compromising yourself in a situation is another story completely [00:53.33]And I have seen this happen long enough in the few years [00:56.57]That I've been alive to know that it's a serious problem [00:59.64]Latino America is a huge colony of countries [01:02.88]Whose presidents are cowards in the face of economic imperialism [01:06.81]You see third world countries are rich places abundant in resources [01:10.49]And many of these countries have the capacity [01:13.17]To feed their starving people and the children [01:15.42]We always see digging for food in trash on commercials [01:17.98] [01:18.67]But plutocracies in other words a government run by the rich such as this one [01:23.15]And traditionally oppressive European states [01:25.22] [01:25.78]Force the third world into buying overpriced [01:28.34]Unnecessary goods while exporting huge portions of their natural resources [01:33.20]I'm quite sure that people will look upon my attitude [01:37.32]And sentiments and look for hypocrisy [01:39.45]And hatred in my words [01:40.38] [01:41.12]My revolution is born out of love for my people [01:44.13]Not hatred for others [01:45.13] [01:46.00]You see most of Latinos are here [01:48.17] [01:48.93]Because of the great inflation [01:50.30]That was caused by American companies in Latin America [01:52.36] [01:53.11]Aside from that [01:54.05]Many are seeking a life away from the puppet democracies [01:55.79]That were funded by the United States [01:58.23] [01:58.91]Places like El Salvador Guatemala Peru Columbia [02:02.16]Nicaragua Ecuador and Republica Dominicana [02:04.28]And not just Spanish speaking countries either [02:08.09]But Haiti and Jamaica as well [02:09.71]As different as we have been taught to look at each other [02:13.14]By colonial society [02:14.39]We are in the same struggle [02:16.01]And until we realize that [02:17.07]We'll be fighting for scraps from the table of a system [02:20.39]That has kept us subservient instead of being self determined [02:23.19] [02:23.87]And that's why we have no control over when the embargo will stop in Cuba [02:27.49]Or when the bombs will stop dropping in Vieques [02:30.05]But you see here in America the attitude [02:32.92]That is fed to us is that outside of America there live lesser people [02:36.54]F**k them let them fend for themselves [02:39.60]No F**k you they are you [02:41.98] [02:42.53]No matter how much you want to dye your hair blonde [02:45.03]And put fake eyes in or follow an anorexic standard of beauty [02:48.53]Or no matter how many diamonds you buy from people [02:51.20]Who exploit your own brutally to get them [02:53.64]No matter what kind of car you drive or what kind of fancy clothes you put on [02:57.76]You will never be them [02:58.82] [02:59.69]They're always gonna look at you as nothing but a little monkey [03:02.24] [03:02.81]I'd rather be proud of what I am [03:04.74]Rather than desperately trying to be something I'm really not [03:07.49]Just to fit in And whether we want to accept it or not [03:10.80]That's what this culture or lack of culture is feeding us [03:13.36] [03:14.35]I want a better life for my family and for my children [03:17.72]But it doesn't have to be at the expense of millions of lives in my homeland [03:20.84]We're given the idea that if we didn't have these people to exploit [03:24.97]Then America wouldn't be rich enough [03:26.59]To let us have these little petty material things in our lives [03:29.71]And basic standards of living [03:31.27]No that's wrong [03:32.20] [03:33.07]It's the business giants and the government officials [03:35.76]Who make all the real money [03:37.13]We have whatever they kick down to us [03:39.38]My enemy is not the average white man [03:41.69]It's not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the street [03:44.75]My enemy is the white man I don't see [03:47.11]The people in the white house the corporate monopoly owners [03:49.05]Fake liberal politicians those are my enemies [03:51.98] [03:52.55]The generals of the armies that are mostly conservatives [03:55.29]Those are the real Mother F**kers that I need to bring it to [03:59.34]Not the poor broke country a** soldier [04:01.90]That's too stupid to know sh*t about the way things are set up [04:05.28]In fact I have more in common with most working and middle class white people [04:10.46]Than I do with most rich black and Latino people [04:13.82]As much as racism bleeds America [04:16.32]We need to understand that classism is the real issue [04:18.81] [04:19.62]Many of us are in the same boat and it's sinking [04:22.50]While these bougie Mother F**kers ride on a luxury liner [04:25.49]And as long as we keep fighting [04:26.94]Over kicking people out of the little boat we're all in [04:29.61]We're gonna miss an opportunity to gain a better standard of living as a whole [04:33.48]In other words I don't want to escape the plantation [04:36.47]I want to come back free all my people [04:39.23]Hang the Mother F**ker that kept me there [04:41.53]And burn the house to the god damn ground [04:44.22]I want to take over the encomienda [04:45.77]And give it back to the people who work the land [04:47.95]You cannot change the past but you can make the future [04:51.82] [04:52.64]And anyone who tells you different is a F**king lethargic devil [04:56.01] [04:57.01]I don't look at a few token Latinos and black people [04:59.63]In the public eye as some type of achievement for my people as a whole [05:02.88] [05:03.58]Most of those successful individuals are sell outs and house Negros [05:07.20] [05:07.71]But I don't consider brothers a sell out [05:10.52]If they move out of the ghetto [05:12.15]Poverty has nothing to do with our people [05:13.45]It's not in our culture to be poor [05:15.69]That's only been the last 500 years of our history [05:18.45]Look at the last 2000 years of our existence [05:21.43]And what we brought to the world in terms of science [05:24.19]Mathematics agriculture and forms of government [05:26.18]You know the idea of a confederation of provinces [05:29.55]Where one federal government controls the states [05:32.17]The Europeans who came to this country stole that idea from the Iroquois lead [05:36.22]The idea of impeaching a ruler comes from an Aztec tradition [05:40.16]That's why Montezuma was stoned to death by his own people [05:43.21]Cause he represented the agenda of white Spaniards once he was captured [05:46.83]Not the Aztec people who would become Mexicans [05:49.70]So in conclusion [05:51.20] [05:51.89]I'm not gonna vote for anybody [05:53.76]Just cause they black or Latino they have to truly represent the community [05:57.69]And represent what's good for all of us proletariat [06:00.13] [06:01.37]Porque sino entonces te mando por el carajo cabron gusano [06:05.25]Hijo de puta [06:06.37] [06:07.18]Seramos libre pronto viva la revolucion VIVA LA REVOLUCION