The Racist-Boogie Down Productions

[ti:The Racist] [ar:Boogie Down Productions] [al:The Essential] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Racist - Boogie Down Productions [00:03.86]I've been taught to respect my elders and behave [00:06.61]Even if when they were young they sold slaves [00:08.87]Truth and understandin' is what I crave [00:11.16]In the land of the thief home of the slave [00:13.70]Turn your page to a brief demonstration [00:15.95]'Cos now in '90 it's strictly information I'm givin' [00:19.23]Teachin' on a regular basis [00:20.49]Today's lecture is about the racist [00:23.13]We're not out to exaggerate or diss him [00:25.69]But show the symptoms and facts of racism [00:27.81]Understand the racist ain't equal [00:30.33]There's about five different types of racist people [00:32.74]First of the five different types of cases [00:35.05]Is the individual brought up racist [00:37.57]Here you have young men and women [00:40.08]Brought up in the Great White Way opinion [00:42.44]This opinion introduced by the parent [00:44.78]To the civilized becomes transparent [00:47.18]The civilized man could look through the faces [00:49.53]Make the analysis and see the racist [00:51.95]Number two case which y'all must hear [00:54.20]Is the individual racist out of fear [00:56.83]Here you have people that fear the African [00:59.25]And conjure up new ways of trappin' him [01:01.75]Number three is the unconscious racist [01:03.77]Not knowin' they're racist they invade your spaces [01:06.24]They say "I'm not a racist I'm not a bigot" [01:08.73]Yet they allow it to go on and won't admit it [01:11.32]Number four is the money racist [01:13.52]The one that used the topics of sheer economics [01:15.90]They say "Owning a business isn't for the black man [01:18.50]He don't want that" yet they went and took his land [01:20.94]Damn that's like a rock in a hard place [01:23.07]You don't have your land yet this ain't your space [01:25.70]America was built by every other race [01:28.25]Except the European that runs this place [01:30.35]What a waste America's doomed [01:32.76]To be overthrown by the righteous real soon [01:35.49]But last but not least racial prejudice [01:37.70]Is the black man speakin' out of ignorance [01:40.29]Whitey this and Ching-Chow that [01:42.31]Is not how the intelligent man acts [01:44.99]You can't blame the whole white race [01:47.04]For slavery 'cos this ain't the case [01:49.53]A large sum of white people died with black [01:52.26]Tryin' hard to fight racial attacks [01:54.41]The media wants you to think that no whites [01:56.97]Really fought and died for Civil Rights [01:59.24]But once we have a true sense of history [02:01.55]You'll see this too as a mystery [02:03.66]If black and white didn't argue the most [02:06.34]They could clearly see the government's screwin' 'em both