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Ive been taught to respect my elders and behave
Even if when they were young they sold slaves
Truth and understandin is what I crave
In the land of the thief, home of the slave
Turn your page to a brief demonstration
Cos now in 90 its strictly information Im givin
Teachin on a regular basis
Todays lecture is about the racist
Were not out to exaggerate or diss him
But show the symptoms and facts of racism
Understand the racist aint equal
Theres about five different types of racist people
First of the five different types of cases
Is the individual brought up racist
Here you have young men and women
Brought up in the great white way opinion
This opinion introduced by the parent
To the civilised becomes transparent
The civilised man could look through the faces
Make the analysis and see the racist
Number two case which yall must hear
Is the individual racist out of fear
Here you have people that fear the african
And conjure up new ways of trappin him
Number three is the unconscious racist
Not knowin theyre racist they invade your spaces
They say, Im not a racist, Im not a bigot
Yet they allow it to go on and wont admit it
Number four is the money racist
The one that used the topics of sheer economics
They say, owning a business isnt for the black man
He dont want that, yet they went and took his land
Damn, thats like a rock in a hard place
You dont have your land yet this aint your space
America was built by every other race
Except the european that runs this place
What a waste, americas doomed
To be overthrown by the righteous real soon
But last but not least racial prejudice
Is the black man speakin out of ignorance
Whitey this and ching-chow that
Is not how the intelligent man acts
You cant blame the whole white race
For slavery, cos this aint the case
A large sum of white people died with black
Tryin hard to fight racial attacks
The media wants you to think that no whites
Really fought and died for civil rights
But once we have a true sense of history
Youll see this too as a mystery
If black and white didnt argue the most
They could clearly see the governments screwin em both.