Racism is as American as apple pie
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And if one black man dies who's gonna cry?
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Smashed and handcuffed and beaten to death
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One colored boy to deal with less
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A graffiti artist was his crime
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Mayor Koch says New York's finest are fine
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Can justice really be this blind
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Is the responsibility yours or mine?
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South Bronx elderly woman can't pay her rent
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She's a mental case so the SWAT team was sent
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Wouldn't open the door so through the window they went
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Blew her away in cold blood without regret
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Pregnant woman from east L.A
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Asked who knocked, they would not say
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Refused to answer, those sheriffs went wild
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Shot her in the stomach and she lost her child
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Just another police related death
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Those teenage boys from Texas caught with a little dope
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It was Black Freedom Day, a prayer and a hope
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Sent handcuffed in a boat to the middle of a lake
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The boat sank, the boys drown, precautions they did not take
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15,000 police homicides in America last year
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How many dents did it make in any policeman's career?
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The mayor and chief cry crocodile tears
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Just look a but concerned as election time nears
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Two sets of laws for the rich and the poor
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Look at the prisons and tally the score
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Black man's chance of prison one in four
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Prejudice and racism wrapped in class war
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If Malcolm and Martin were alive today
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How many lives of grief and pain they could relay
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And how for these injustices can anyone repay?
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And with what amount of sorrow can anyone convey?
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How much suffering must be endured
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before this social cancer can be cured?
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Do color and class make one good or bad?
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Doesn't prejudice and hate make humankind sad?
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Police Related Death
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