Jonny 5 - Sister Souljah to Shirley Sherrod lyrics

Intro: On Monday, a woman, Shirley Sherrod, an African American employee of the United States department of agriculture, resigned under what she described as "pressure from the white house to do so", after the conservative blogger published an edited video, in which she seemed to observers to admit to anti-white discrimination. Except we now know that video was edited to take what she said and twist it completely Alot of our viewers may not know about this: this woman's father was murdered by a white man, nobody was ever punished [Verse 1: Jonny 5] The arch of universe bends towards justice But this demands us put our hands forward, touch it Like abacuses, if we don't we don't budget Lemme suggest we consult Frederick Dougla** "If there is no struggle, there is no Progress" Words from a man once considered an object By educated Christians Who said that they had listened To everything God said Everyday citizens who every chance they got stood and blocked freedom's marches Made'em drop dead off the arches Shot'em like a partridge For anybody tendin to the carca** Or watering their parched lips They reloaded the cartridge Bullets in the heart didn't ever get removed No they never had catharsis like yabba dabba doo Just a gradual gradual improvement Like that'll have to do Not even forty acres and a mule But everybody knows this It's just our nation's history There's no need to expose it But dealin with the sh** can be explosive But no fair hunkering in the bunkers and the barracks dammit This is what it is to be American It means that when somebody's seventeen and Her father gets shot for being black and inbetween A white man and what a white man feels he needs When the girl becomes a woman she might stand and disagree With the system designed so efficiently to hold her down in misery She's older now She might be sick of bein' sick of these water fountains that she had to rinse in And it's possible she might harbor some resentment like Sister Souljah (He doesn't know she was returned to her job at the agriculture department, but moments ago, she accepted the apology of the White House) [Verse 2: Jonny 5] Sister Souljah to Shirley Sherrod Reagan Democrats to Republicans for Barrack Johnson gave away the south to make civil rights law For every two steps backwards we move 3 steps up, it's like Sister Souljah to Shirley Sherrod Reagan Democrats to Republicans for Barrack Johnson gave away the south to make civil rights law For every two steps backwards we move 3 steps up What if Jeremiah was right Would you clarify and fight Or take flight like a parasite? Do you know how to stand up and stare'm right In the eyes make'm calm down when they're terrified? And hey did ya know what to say just Then when the nice person said something racist? If a noose hangs in the forest But nobody's lynched does that make it a toy we can play with? And if not why do they get to play with it? Why do white people so frequently say this sh**? And what's underneath the obsession With laying some claim to a piece of oppression Outwardly mad cuz they censored the n-word Ingram it's time that some things were remembered Maybe my people just need some direction So 5's on the mic try to teach'em a lesson, like, sister souljah (My definition of good, is that you understand that this is a question of power, that you'd be willing to give up some power.) Sister Souljah to Shirley Sherrod Reagan Democrats to Republicans for Barrack Johnson gave away the south to make civil rights law For every 2 steps back we move 3 steps up Sister Souljah to Shirley Sherrod Reagan Democrats to Republicans for barrack Johnson gave away the south to make civil rights law For every 2 steps back we move 3 steps up 3 steps up 3 steps up 3 steps up, and then we've reached that spot (Working with him made me see, that it's really about those who have versus those who don't. And it made me realize then, that I needed to work to help poor people. Those who don't have access the way others have.)