This kind of hits home....

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exoduster16

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I was out looking for lyrics to song when this came up, so i thought I'd check it out. It's by a band called the Pinkerton Thugs. Haven't ever heard of them or listened to their music, but I liked the lyrics, so I thought I'd post them....


PINKERTON THUGS LYRICS

"Battlecry"

We've been standing around for far to long
Living our image, singing our songs
Twenty years strong, but what's really changed?
We've repeated our message but the system remains
The land of the free? The home of the brave?
The black still a target, the worker still a slave
They still have the taxman, they still have the cop
We're still at the bottom, they're still on the top
We gotta fight!
We're asking "Who?" Instead of "Why?"
How can we fight them if we're part of their lie?
Don't let their lies get the better of you because fighting
each other is what they want us to do
The time will come, we'll have our turn. But until that
day we've got a lot to learn. You don't ask for liberty, you
gotta demand! Hope in our hearts, bricks in our hands...

How do you guys feel about the words, kind of how we tend to think of things sometimes?
 
For one thing, it treats as a given that "blacks are a target." I disagree. There are millionaire, powerful blacks just like whites. ANY LAW THAT DISCRIMINATES IS ILLEGAL, ITSELF. There is NO institutional way to "keep darkie down" anymore in this country. There are loads of governmental agencies that can be called if someone thinks they detect a whiff of discrimination.


For another thing, I note that they say, "bricks in our hands". Why not GUNS?

It makes me think of the "tough talk" of leftists. I always have to laugh when leftists posture like they're tough, and I think, "If you're so tough, like you pretend to be against 'gun nuts,' what will you use to fight them?"

How tough are these Pinkerton Thugs if they are talking about fighting "the Man" with BRICKS? ALREADY they've lost, if that's what they've been reduced to. If you're reduced to taking on the government using BRICKS, the government already has you under its thumb and you ain't getting back out from under.

Ironic. Tough talk from the already-conquered.

-blackmind
 
There is NO institutional way to "keep darkie down" anymore in this country.

Except for, say, California's "may issue" concealed carry licensing system which allows police chiefs and sheriffs to apply blanket no-issue policies to entire cities in Alameda county which are predominantly Black, regardless of the individual's need or reason.
 
Tough Reply

Dang dude, tough reply, sorry i didn't think about the comment about the blacks. I apologize to anyone upset, angered, or otherwise mad about it. Good point on the bricks and already being owned by the government if we're relegated to using them, though....didn't think about that one. Although I did think about using the guns.....:D
 
Are you saying that restrictiveness regarding concealed carry license issuance is practiced only in black areas in California and cannot be found in NON-black areas?


That's not the impression I get. I thought that CA was simply anti-CCW for the most part, everywhere, except for those rare rural places where the sheriff does grant permits.

But if you're gonna allege that it's targeted at blacks the way the original anti-gun laws were in the deep south ages ago, please offer evidence of that.


-blackmind
 
Uuuummmmm.....

Have you ever read the book "Unintended Consequences" ? it is an awesome, but rather lengthy. It is a very good book. In the beginning, although it is just a father talking to his son, it mentions that some places were shall issue just for the above reason. The book starts out in the sixties if i remember correctly. So i could it being in ther with all the "revolution" over civil rights.
 
The book starts out closer to WW ONE, actually... Talks about the Bonus Marchers. Then on to the Warsaw Ghetto resistance in WWII...


But yeah, they deal with the Jim Crow laws that had as their goal the keeping-down of blacks, particularly by keeping them from legally being able to have guns.


Excellent book.


-blackmind
 
Sorry about the screw up, blackmind. Thanks for correcting me now that i think about it. Yeah it is a really good book. For a while I thought that i was the only one who had ever read it.
 
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