- The Poverty of Philosophy 歌詞 Immortal Technique
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- Immortal Technique The Poverty of Philosophy 歌詞
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Most of my Latino and black people who are struggling to get food,
clothes and shelter in the hood are so concerned with that,
that philosophising about freedom and socialist democracy is usually unfortunately beyond their rationale.
They dont realize that America cant exist without separating them from their identity,
because if we had some sense of who we really are,
theres no way in hell wed allow this country to push its genocidal consensus on our homelands.
This ignorance exists, but it can be destroyed.
******* talk about change and working within the system to achieve that.
The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within,
its not you who changes the system; its the system that will eventually change you.
There is usually nothing wrong with compromise in a situation,
but compromising yourself in a situation is another story completely,
and I have seen this happen long enough in the few years that Ive been alive to know that its a serious problem.
Latino America is a huge colony of countries whose presidents are cowards in the face of economic imperialism.
You see, third world countries are rich places, abundant in resources,
and many of these countries have the capacity to feed their starving people
and the children we always see digging for food in trash on commercials. But plutocracies,
in other words a government run by the rich such as this one and traditionally oppressive European states,
force the third world into buying overpriced, unnecessary goods while exporting huge portions of their natural resources.
Im quite sure that people will look upon my attitude and sentiments and look for hypocrisy and hatred in my words.
My revolution is born out of love for my people, not hatred for others.
You see, most of Latinos are here because of the great inflation
that was caused by American companies in Latin America.
Aside from that, many are seeking a life away from the puppet democracies
that were funded by the United States; places like El Salvador,
Guatemala, Peru, Columbia, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Republica Dominicana,
and not just Spanish-speaking countries either, but Haiti and Jamaica as well.
As different as we have been taught to look at each other by colonial society,
we are in the same struggle and until we realize that,
well be fighting for scraps from the table of a system that has kept us subservient instead of being self-determined.
And thats why we have no control over when the embargo will stop in Cuba, or when the bombs will stop dropping in Vieques.
But you see, here in America the attitude that is fed to us is that outside of America there live lesser people.
'******* them, let them fend for themselves.'
No, ******* you, they are you. No matter how much you want to dye your hair blonde and put fake eyes in,
or follow an anorexic standard of beauty,
or no matter how many diamonds you buy from people who exploit your own brutally to get them,
no matter what kind of car youdrive or what kind of fancy clothes you put on, you will never be them.
Theyre always gonna look at you as nothing but a little monkey.
Id rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperately trying to be something Im really not, just to fit in.
And whether we want to accept it or not, thats what this culture or lack of culture is feeding us.
I want a better life for my family and for my children,
but it doesnt have to be at the expense of millions of lives in my homeland.
Were given the idea that if we didnt have these people to exploit then
America wouldnt be rich enough to let us have these little petty material things in
our lives and basic standards of living. No, thats wrong.
Its the business giants and the government officials who make all the real money.
We have whatever they kick down to us. My enemy is not the average white man,
its not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the street;
my enemy is the white man I dont see: the people in the white house , the corporate monopoly owners,
fake liberal politicians those are my enemies. The generals of the armies
that are mostly conservatives those are the real Mother-******s that I need to bring it to, not the poor,
broke country-ass soldier thats too stupid to know *******t about the way things are set upIn fact,
I have more in common with most working and middle-class white people than I do with most rich black and Latino people.
As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.
Many of us are in the same boat and its sinking,
while these bougie Mother-******s ride on a luxury liner,
and as long as we keep fighting over kicking people out of the little boat were all in,
were gonna miss an opportunity to gain a better standard of living as a whole.
In other words, I dont want to escape the plantation I want to come back,
free all my people, hang the Mother-****** that kept me there and burn the house to the god damn ground.
I want to take over the encomienda and give it back to the people who work the land.
You cannot change the past but you can make the future,
and anyone who tells you different is a ******* lethargic devil.
I dont look at a few token Latinos and black people in the public eye as some type of achievement for my people as a whole.
Most of those successful individuals are sell-outs and house Negros.
But, I dont consider brothers a sell-out if they move out of the ghetto.
Poverty has nothing to do with our people. Its not in our culture to be poor.
Thats only been the last 500 years of our history;
look at the last 2000 years of our existence and what we brought to the world in terms of science,
mathematics, agriculture and forms of government.
You know the idea of a confederation of provinces where one federal government controls the states?
The Europeans who came to this country stole that idea from the Iroquois lead.
The idea of impeaching a ruler comes from an Aztec tradition.
Thats why Montezuma was stoned to death by his own people
cause he represented the agenda of white Spaniards once he was captured, not the Aztec people who would become Mexicans.
So in conclusion, Im not gonna vote for anybody just cause they
black or Latino they have to truly represent the community and represent whats good for all of us proletariat.
Porque sino entonces te mando por el carajo cabron gusano hijo de puta,
seramos libre pronto, viva la revolucion, viva la revolucion!
by og
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