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Welcome to Reality
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Category: News and Politics
Anarchy and misery
A ghoulish reality
A devastation of humanity
Of poor people almost exclusively
Human suffering unparalled in American history
Citizen's lives made barren and impotent by a catastrophe
Real human emotions acted out for the world to see
It would never have happened
if Bush hadn't taken away the $70 million needed to fortify the levee
The people of New Orleans becoming refugees from their own city
floodwaters unsafe because of their toxicity
Left without worldly possessions, searching for lost family
Haliburton Inc. got the cleanup contracts, exploiters of poverty
A nation thinking itself invulnerable
to Earth and its forces woken from that fantasy
Hurricane Katrina gave us a harsh dose of reality
Slapped in our faces by the storm, forced to confront our vulnerability
Survival of the richest, escaping if you had money
the American Dream, capitalist fiction, turned out to be a fallacy
Exposing the charade of separate but equal
vanished racism and social equality
The hurricane provided proof that black and white America
are divided socioeconomically
Just as it was before the formation of the Republic
when black slaves were considered animals
and one's skin color determined freedom or misery
Conscious and subconscious racism still lingers
with emanicpation did not come equality
Blacks creeping out of cesspools of slavery
into a world they only saw through the periphery
A culture, white and homogenous placed monolithic barriers to entry
This can be said with certainty
the slave labor of blacks made America wealthy
Blood, sweat and tears enriching America's past and present oligarchy
America's wealth accumulated over centuries of slavery
Generations of blacks have suffered
from a playing field that has no semblance of equality
Dependent on the crumbs and bones thrown their way by an Anglo society
For one hundred years after winning their freedom
blacks remained a servile entity
Confronting societal racism and government indifference
the black community never really escaped slavery
Slave wages, slave income, slave like conditions
with no foreseeable opportunity
Jobs whites no longer wanted were given to blacks
the lowest end of the totem pole called American society
White America pretended the ghetto did not exist
even as millions lived in squalor with no foreseeable opportunity
Making impotent education from pre-school through high school
by introducing firewater, drugs and weapons into the inner city
Relegated to the slums and ghetto, forced to live in poverty
Wanting to move ahead and escape the internment camp
the leite had shoved them into but lacking the education necessary
Without education there is pure ignorance and lack of knowledge
Without liveable wages there is only slavery
Living paycheck to paycheck, indebted more and more each day
thousands of blacks are forced to jon the military
Without employment and education
two million black men find themselves
in the largest prison system the world has ever seen
locked away for crimes that wer petty
The sojourn into the inner city is to take a trip into Haiti
Thos such as George Bush, born with silver spoons and gold-plated toilets
would be unlikely to show any sympathy
No concern for those less fortunate than themselves
hypnotized by the Dollar Almighty
Guitar lessons in San Diego, rounds of golf in California
ignoring the New Orleans calamity
Failing to attend to the worst natural disaster in America's history
showed us that Bush is nothing more than a corporate owned lackey
More concern was given Bush's failed war in Iraq than an American city
The administration knew full well the dangers of a major hurricane
hitting New Orleans but didn't help to secure the city's safety
So they ended up swimming in toxic cocktails of waste and water
dehydrating for lack of water and hungry
Forced to endure chaos and anarchy
This has been a message from England's first rapper
documented Black Echoes magazine 1980
The hurricane revealed that Bush has a frozen in the 60's mind set
Welcome to reality
Copyright 2006 Knowledge
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