Thursday, August 21, 2014

Music Break - Lauryn Hill

Ms. Lauryn Hill has released a sketch version of her piece Black Rage in honor and support of the protests in Ferguson, Missouri. It's poignant and powerful and deserves many, many listens. And then action.



Black Rage

Black Rage is founded on two-thirds a person
Rapings and beatings and suffering that worsens.
Black human packages tied up in strings,
Black Rage can come from all these kinds of things.
Black Rage is founded on blatant denial
Squeeze economics, subsistence survival,
Deadening silence and social control.
Black Rage is founded on wounds in the soul!

When the dogs bite
When the beatings
When I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember all these kinds of things and then I don't fear so bad!

Black Rage is founded: who fed us self hatred,
Lies and abuse, while we waited and waited?
Spiritual treason, this grid and its cages,
Black Rage is founded on these kinds of things.
Black Rage is founded on draining and draining,
Threatening your freedom to stop your complaining.
Poisoning your water while they say it's raining,
Then call you mad for complaining, complaining.
Old time bureaucracy drugging the youth,
Black Rage is founded on blocking the truth!
Murder and crime, compromise and distortion,
Sacrifice, sacrifice who makes this fortune?
Greed, falsely called progress,
Such Human contortion,
Black Rage is founded on these kinds of things.

So when the dogs bite
And when the ceilings
And when I'm feeling mad,
I simply remember all these kinds of things and then I don't fear so bad!

Free enterprise, is it myth or illusion?
Forcing you back into purposed confusion.
Black human trafficking or blood transfusion?
Black Rage is founded on these kinds of things.
Victims of violence both psyche and body
Life out of context IS living unGodly.
Politics, politics
Greed falsely called wealth
Black Rage is founded on denial of self!
Black human packaged tied in subsistence
Having to justify very existence
Try if you must but you can't have my soul
Black Rage is made by unGodly control!

So when the dogs bite
When the beatings
And when I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember all these kinds of things and then I don't fear so bad!

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