The KeeP aLL PeopLe

They’re attackin our people
Say we’re not equal
They’re not the colonists
They’re the middle class keep aLL
Keepin aLL the same
Not using their brain
to seek out what’s true
just fortune and fame
it’s insane
to be living life so vain
not understanding that we’re
protecting the mind frame
that’s made us aLL lame
up until the point
that we finally reclaim
our name

What Shame!

And the blame
Must be placed
Squarely where it’s owed
It’s already been showed
We barely have a say
But no way
This form of life is here to stay

The Middle Class mass
That has never known hunger
Will not feel the zeal
Or the urgency of the younger
Who face’s racist places
Everywhere she graces
There people on the hate lists
Blacks and Arabs of all ages
Latinos with indigenous traces
Caribbeans, Indians, Asians
Oppressed
by Middle class nations
who have no connection
or affection for each other
and can’t understand
when I call a stranger
my brother

why bother trying to reach a new way of life
when the middle class is reaching for that knife
stab themselves six times straight in the back
call the educated articulate socialists whack
and blame the social ill on stupid shit like crack
all too blind to see the full fledge attack
on themselves by those who internationally ransack
and they are the backbone that back every last bit of it
I’m sick of it
And so should you!

- JuLez (November 16, 2005.. . .written for my homeboy Ro!)