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Verse
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I've been taught to respect my elders and behave
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Even if when they were young they sold slaves
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Truth and understandin' is what I crave
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In the land of the thief home of the slave
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Turn your page to a brief demonstration
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Cos now in '90 it's strictly information I'm givin'
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Teachin' on a regular basis
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Today's lecture is about The Racist
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We're not out to exaggerate or diss him
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But show the symptoms and facts of racism
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Understand The Racist ain't equal
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There's about five different types of racist people
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First of the five different types of cases
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Is the individual brought up racist
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Here you have young men and women
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Brought up in the Great White Way opinion
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This opinion introduced by the parent
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To the civilised becomes transparent
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The civilised man could look through the faces
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Make the analysis and see The Racist
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Number two case which y'all must hear
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Is the individual racist out of fear
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Here you have people that fear the African
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And conjure up new ways of trappin' him
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Number three is the unconscious racist
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Not knowin' they're racist they invade your spaces
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They say, "I'm not a racist, I'm not a bigot"
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Yet they allow it to go on and won't admit it
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Number four is the money racist
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The one that used the topics of sheer economics
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They say, "Owning a business isn't for the black man
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He don't want that", yet they went and took his land
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Damn, that's like a rock in a hard place
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You don't have your land yet this ain't your space
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America was built by every other race
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Except the European that runs this place
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What a waste, America's doomed
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To be overthrown by the righteous real soon
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But last but not least racial prejudice
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Is the black man speakin' out of ignorance
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Whitey this and Ching-Chow that
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Is not how the intelligent man acts
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You can't blame the whole white race
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For slavery, cos this ain't the case
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A large sum of white people died with black
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Tryin' hard to fight racial attacks
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The media wants you to think that no whites
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Really fought and died for Civil Rights
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But once we have a true sense of history
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You'll see this too as a mystery
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If black and white didn't argue the most
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They could clearly see the government's screwin' 'em both.
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The Racist
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