Writings on Disobedience and Democracy - Vinnie Paz.mp3

[00:01.691]"We have to stop thinking that we must have military solutions
[00:06.469]To the problems we face in the world"
[00:07.881]Yeah
[00:08.802]"The solutions that we need are..."
[00:09.965]Picking up where we left off
[00:11.968]"...dealing of sickness, disease, and hunger
[00:15.188]Now that’s fundamental
[00:16.780]If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists
[00:21.942]Which is what war is"
[00:23.269]They told you World War II was a people’s war
[00:26.446]Logic should have told them it was Imperialist war
[00:29.136]18 million served in the armed forces
[00:31.825]10 million more overseas – that’s enormous
[00:34.979]25 million workers paid for war bonds
[00:37.738]All of the while people question why the war’s on
[00:40.535]There was an undercurrent of reluctance
[00:42.719]There were under-publicized signs of resistance
[00:46.177]******’s Germany was unspeakable evil
[00:48.924]But let’s discuss real quick what we did to people
[00:52.201]We opposed the Haitian revolution
[00:54.427]We turned Guam, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii into institutions
[00:57.423]Pretended to help Cuba win freedom from Spain
[01:00.658]This country’s built on the blood of other people’s pain
[01:03.719]Blacks is looking at anti-Semitism in Germany
[01:06.099]And saw the situation here was mirroring it perfectly
[01:09.300]We appeased niggas all throughout the '30s
[01:11.889]Only years later we pretended we was worried
[01:15.124]Roosevelt was hesitant to be gritty
[01:17.590]And caused a resolution to be buried in committee
[01:20.734]The main interest was never to stop fascism
[01:23.748]But advancing Imperialist interests of that prism
[01:26.646]Roosevelt ain’t care about oppression of the Jews
[01:29.471]The power was the priority, I’m telling you the truth
[01:32.287]****** not the reason that we entered the land
[01:34.697]Roosevelt was mad that we got hit by Japan
[01:37.611]Historians will tell you he provoked that shit
[01:40.283]He told lies in attempts to sugar coat that shit
[01:43.378]In ‘45 troops were jammed onto the Queen Mary
[01:46.561]The blacks were stowed down in the depths of the same ferry
[01:49.402]See there’s a parallel you have to understand
[01:51.965]That they wanted them to fight but wouldn’t treat them like a man
[01:55.156]Industrial mobilization had a few divided
[01:57.962]The economic royalists denounced and derided
[02:00.794]The irony of victory was heavily a price
[02:03.673]The war ended, 3 million men was in strike
[02:06.761]There’s no peace in a world of capitalism
[02:09.166]**** eugenics economic rationalism
[02:12.172]The lesson was that war solved problems of control
[02:15.043]Regardless if it causes any problems for the soul
[02:18.031]The black revolt in the '50s came as a surprise
[02:20.739]It shouldn’t have after we took so many of their lives
[02:23.424]You can’t erase the memory of an oppressed people
[02:26.161]Reparation doesn’t make it any less evil
[02:29.520]Some black folks joined the Communist party
[02:32.210]Richard Wright spoke of disillusionment with the body
[02:35.154]The party was accused of exploiting black people
[02:37.953]Angelo Herndon felt everything was equal
[02:40.760]He was arrested they convicted for insurrection
[02:43.596]How the **** it’s insurrection I call it dissension
[02:46.497]Gave him 5 years when all he wanted was protection
[02:49.332]There was other black men that made the same connection
[02:52.365]Benjamin Davis defended Herndon as a savior
[02:55.056]Then Paul Robeson; he only magnified the danger
[02:58.033]Harry Truman had to deal with the militant mood
[03:00.713]But how the **** that gonna work when he a racist too?
[03:03.783]In ’54 they said they ended segregation
[03:06.436]10 years later no changes
[03:09.509]Revolt was always minutes away about to bust
[03:12.263]Rosa Parks refused the black section of the bus
[03:15.286]The freedom riders were spreading across the nation
[03:17.823]They went to jail for marching and fighting discri****tion
[03:20.774]FBI stood by, Justice Department stood by
[03:23.376]While civil rights workers were beaten, they just stood by
[03:26.607]3 civil rights workers, 2 black and 1 white
[03:29.388]Arrested in Philadelphia, Mississippi one night
[03:32.197]They were released, beaten with chains and shot to death
[03:35.079]There were arrests made but it was not confessed
[03:38.194]The national government remained silent
[03:40.503]The president wouldn’t defend blacks against violence
[03:43.370]Civil rights laws were passed but they were fraud
[03:46.171]Equality was enforced poorly or was ignored
[03:49.177]Martin Luther King’s speech floored whoever heard it
[03:51.931]5 years later he was targeted and murdered
[03:54.870]In ’65 the Watts Riots burned into the streets
[03:57.453]The black man would no longer turn the other cheek
[04:01.160]The Black Panther Party scared Nixon
[04:03.403]But that did nothing to change his position
[04:06.381]A new black consciousness was born and still alive
[04:09.821]And that came from the will to survive
[04:12.331]This is the part where I would talk about Vietnam
[04:15.082]But me and Rugged Man we already made a song
[04:17.744]By the '70s distrust had spread across the nation
[04:21.115]Basic discontent political alienation
[04:23.644]55,000 died in the war of moral shame
[04:26.611]And then Watergate was added to the hall of pain
[04:29.319]The Watergate burglaries was rather complicated
[04:32.143]But in the end mostly all of them exonerated
[04:35.278]Nixon had CIA a G. Gordon Liddy
[04:38.099]Lie about the Democratic National Committee
[04:40.838]But eventually they all flipped on him
[04:43.287]And told the Senate that they had a lot of shit on him
[04:46.243]After that it was a swift and a sudden fall
[04:49.390]Nixon resigned before they could impeach the ball
[04:52.265]They got rid of Nixon but they kept the system
[04:55.240]His foreign policy still remains in position
[04:58.463]Corporate interests still remained in position
[05:01.180]His closest advisors remain in position
[05:03.815]Vietnam recession and unrest
[05:06.215]All adds up to a mother****ing mess
[05:09.537]After Watergate and Vietnam
[05:11.664]There was a deep economic insecurity in this world of ours
[05:14.711]Environmental deterioration took its toll
[05:17.929]A cultural violence upon the families took its toll
[05:20.917]Problems couldn’t be solved without bold changes
[05:23.800]But no major party candidates proposed changes
[05:26.765]American political tradition held fast
[05:29.333]Urban communities turning into hell fast
[05:32.522]Black folks are bitterly disappointed with Carter
[05:35.123]Opposed federal aid the poor people didn’t bother
[05:38.280]Reagan got elected and he built a military up
[05:40.746]A trillion dollars later
[05:42.018]And this mother****ing dummy up
[05:43.543]He cut benefits for the poor to get the money up
[05:46.260]Social security, disability went belly up
[05:49.148]Unemployment grew in the Reagan years
[05:52.306]30 million people unemployed in the Reagan years
[05:55.312]Welfare became an o**ect of attack
[05:58.020]Especially if you was latino or you was black
[06:00.877]I’m just scratching the surface of what was wrong
[06:03.364]We’ll pick the conversation up in the next song
[06:08.246]To be continued...
[06:11.827]You can’t be neutral on a moving train
[06:14.055]I told y’all before
[06:16.117]You can’t believe everything that your teacher tell you
[06:19.910]Who is your teacher?
[06:22.499]Your teacher just learned what they was taught
[06:25.425]How do you know what they was taught was correct?
[06:29.831]Y'kna mean?
[06:31.861]Dig into the real history of this country
[06:35.782]And the fact that it was built on blood
[06:41.126]We gonna go around for a third time
[06:44.759]But for now I’m just blessing y’all with this one
[06:47.047]A continuation of the first
[06:49.630]You can’t be neutral on a moving train
[06:52.875]Pazienza
[06:56.087]Howard Zinn thank you for teaching the people
[06:59.826]Rest in Peace
[07:02.496]It’s Pazienza baby
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