Thursday, December 25, 2008

Stop It
Stop It

Stop it,
Stop telling me, that I am being too damn uppity
For asking that the Majority should think
Of thinking about
Protecting the Minority.

Stop telling me,
That it would be overtly presumptuous of the Majority
To want to Protect Special Classes of People.

Stop telling me,
That the Minority should be
The ones that to educate the Majority
About what the World.

Stop telling me,
That its up to the Minority
To Solve the Problems of
Society.
That it is a Minority Problem,
Not Everyone¡¦s Problem.

And than stop telling me,
Once the Minority learns to
Stand up for themselves
Only than will the
World be a Better Place.

Cause that worked out so well for
Ida B. Wells-Barnett,
All she wanted was for black men to
Stop ending up as Strange Fruit on a Tree.
She asked nicely
Didn¡¦t get answer back, too?
Oh wait, didn¡¦t her newspaper burn down?
And she had to run lackey-split out of
The South?

And lets not forget,
Miriam Makeba, our late-Mama Afrika,
All she did was tell the UN
About the fanatical
Apartheid in South Africa.
Lost her homeland
And forced into Exile.
Nice, huh?

So Stop it,
Stop saying that only in a idealize world
Can the Majority do right by the
Minority without them asking for.

So, let the Minority tell
The Majority, what they want first
Than the Majority will help them.

What the Majority got eyes of their own?
They can¡¦t possible see
Injustice for themselves.

Too blind by their own perfection
To their Imperfections?
That does no respect for the Minority
Nor the Majority.

Well, excuse me,
If don¡¦t want a cheap cop out.

And, excuse me,
If I can¡¦t take that sorry excuse
As the honest gospel.
So don¡¦t just go dissin¡¦
Them, so you can get me
All huffy about the Man
In order to avoid
Answering a few little questions.

And I sure as Hell,
Don¡¦t Appreciate that
You believe that once you say
That the world isn¡¦t all that ideal
That our conversation is OVER.

Hell No,
Our Conversation
Has only JUST BEGUN.


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