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Poverty Analyzed In Hip Hop Music
In these lyrics in which I see
The effects on poverty only turn out to be
A young black man in a penitentiary
Because of taking what he needs
It’s said; the white man won’t let him free
The presidents that used to be
They named them something we fail to see
They say these men represent; rappers, racists, and enslavers too
What do these men mean to you?
Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, and Jackson
Did they cause anything but good actions
For the words they chose, I can’t agree
They see something I wouldn’t dare to see
Why is it that they can’t see?
Those men helped, both you and me
It’s not their fault everyone can’t see
All the things that they could see
It kind of takes to me
But I work to get what I want for me
So that I won’t have to go out and steal
So don’t blame the white man for what happens to you
You have the choice to do what you need to do
The past is the past, I come to my conclusion at last
Work and receive, then buy what you need
By, Xioimara L Ramos
The Real World? Wow!
Congrats on graduation, I hope you read the entire library and all the newspapers, watched all the news talk shows, and every issue of Scientific America - The National Geographic - and Poetry Magazine. watched every pbs classic, and bbc.com on world news. Also all the poets and novelists, new and old, and I hope you understand graphs and charts used in economic discussions. Read biographies of great women like Elizabeth I and Eleanor of Aquitaine and them lament how you will never attain their accomplishments. To be truely educated, you must rebel and become uneducated to most of what you know right now (defy the mythology you are locked inside). The world is changing fast and so you must try to keep up. That's the beginning, life 101, it gets better with age, like special vintages of wines or the number of wrinkles and gray hairs you will see in the mirror called your existence - your friend, allets