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juice rap news - rn32: msmbs news: black lives matter? lyrics

[brian washington]
get ready, get set, this is msmbs
spreading the highest grade bs to television sets
across the entire continent of the blessed us
with me, brian washington, sitting here at the news desk
headlies tonight: white america in state of unrest
as violent thugs break windows, loot, riot and smash
ferguson; baltimore. why are they so vexed?
and, above all, where will thug’qaida strike next?
not since rodney king and the la riots chapter
have we seen such a backlash against the nation’s white masters
so we’re forced to distort, i mean report, these matters
we speak to chief of police, general baxter

[general baxter]
woop, woop, that’s the sound of the police!
brrap, brrap, that’s the sound of the piece!
you can’t stand where i stand, coz i stand above the law!
watch out! …oh, hi brian! …yeah, ready to talk

[brian washington]
burning and looting, general, have they gone insane?
i mean, we could understand if their team had just won a hockey game…

[general baxter]
it’s great that the media’s focused on the looting and rioting:
it distracts from the k!llings that provoked these uprisings

[brian washington]
how did we arrive at this?

[general baxter]
it all started when a trigger happy vigilante targeted this unarmed kid
cos he looked black… i mean, suspicious

[brian washington]
trayvon martin. tragic

[general baxter]
yeah, but thankfully the k!ller was acquitted, pardoned

[brian washington]
how did this lead to hashtags and street trashing?

[general baxter]
we used to k!ll black kids and deny it even happened
but now every dumb -ss with a smartphone has a decent camera
to simul-cast it to millions of witnesses and unleash the anger
like when eric garner was on the corner hawking cigarettes:
a threat to our economy, so the feds choked him to death

[brian washington]
penalties for bankers who cheat the system are just as stiff

[general baxter]
of course. wealth doesn’t affect the justice you get!
then, in ferguson, mike brown -ssaulted an officer
by shouting “don’t shoot!” with his hands up
the cop had no option but to bust shots at him
again, justice was restored. the officer was not brought to court

[brian washington]
that went down well, i’m sure…

[general baxter]
then protests galore in baltimore, a vicious tide
after friendly jakes took freddie gray for a tour: a nickel ride
where he decided to slice his own f-cking spine
and die just to make us look bad in the public eye

[brian washington]
the list goes on, it’s infinite. there’s so many names in it!

[general baxter]
and you know the common factor in all these cases and incidents?
the nasty word which led to all this pain and sadism?

[brian washington]
no idea, give us a clue!

[general baxter]
it starts with “r” and ends with “-ism”…

[brian washington]
i give in, i just can’t see a pattern, it’s plain hidden!

[general baxter]
they were all victims of deep-seated… recidivism

[brian washington]
oh, recidivism… when will we ever stamp out its presence?

[general baxter]
it takes time to educate the m-sses…

[brian washington]
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[brian washington]
and we dive back into our topic tonight
we invite an activist for ‘civil rights’. are you there, marvin uggenrite?

[marvin uggenrite]
marv uggenrite!

[brian washington]
alright! do you condone the floods
of property damage, and broken windows done by these thugs?

[marvin uggenrite]
thugs? we both know what that word replaces!
just call’em ‘n-ggers’, that’s what you really mean, ain’t it?

[brian washington]
racist!

[marvin uggenrite]
and can we focus on the real victims?

[general baxter]
they were no angels, they had criminal records

[marvin uggenrite]
that’s a red herring. fallacious
the issue ain’t whether those people were good or bad
it’s whether the rule of law applies equally to white and black
and clearly it don’t. in theory jim crow is a bygone era
but in practice nothing’s changed in america
you see, not long ago, white mobs in the streets
would lynch at least two of my people every week;
now a black person is k!lled every two days… just by the police!

[general baxter]
don’t lie! those are just the deaths we report and release

[marvin uggenrite]
and that’s not the only connection existing
between lynchings and police k!llings:
both sit outside the rule of the law; no trial or jury is ever called
and in both cases the brutality is a public spectacle
both are used for trivial reasons… like
for stealing food or selling loose smokes to civilians
and in both cases the k!llers get off scot free
yeah ‘scott free’; like dred scott who was born into slavery
that’s another historical parallel worth making
coz alongside genocide, slavery’s the foundation of this nation
trapping today’s generation in a continuation of plantation living
which is really no different to prisons or concentration camps
controlled by white masters and overseers
again, what’s changed? overseer, overseer, overseer, overseer
overseerovercerofficerofficer… officer, yeah officer
300 years and we still can’t get these d-mn chains off of us
these links connect black people’s present and past
like when we’re trapped in the ghettos riddled with cheap crack
or deprived of educations, with no job prospects
from failed schools, to the streets, to prison, and back
you see, that…
that’s what you call a preschool to prison complex

[brian washington]
and we’re meant to think that this has disadvantaged
you people, or caused some kind of permanent damage!?

[marvin uggenrite]
yeah black folks are damaged from it, but so are you;
you’re all psychologically damaged from this history, too!
jeremy scahill was speaking the truth
when he tweeted “the best white people can do
is recognize we’re recovering racists; born into
a system that tells us we rule.”

[brian washington]
so you’d like us to believe that this “systemic racism”
is the underlying cause of these police k!llings?

[general baxter]
outrageous statements! not all police officers are racists!
sadly, we still have many good apples left in our stations

[marvin uggenrite]
what i’m saying is we need to reform the police force
educate officers about history and racial prejudice in all forms
and hold k!llers accountable
ensure that they understand that black lives matter, y’all

[crowd]
black lives matter!
black lives matter!
black lives matter!

[brian washington]
well, marvin, all lives matter, don’t you think so?
but more importantly: what about these damaged windows?

[general baxter]
yeah, think of the windows shattered! #whitewindowsmatter!

[marvin uggenrite]
dafuq! our hashtags get jacked by crackers??
first our music, then our culture; now #blacklivesmatter?
sheeeit this is even worse than wack white rappers!

[general baxter]
i hate white rappers. they should be attacked with iron hammers

[marvin uggenrite]
marv uggenrite

[brian washington]
finally, a matter we can see eye to eye on together
and on that note of harmony and unanimity
we bring our report to its conclusion merrily
the lesson is evident: we need to aim our anger and weaponry
not against each other, but against our common enemy
that way we can avoid dealing with the core issue:
the unresolved legacy of our history and the damage it’s inflicted on all people;
black, brown, white and, most important, our shop windows
tune in next show for more flawless info!

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