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Immortal Technique - The Poverty of Philosophy lyrics

Artist: Immortal Technique

album: Revolutionary, Vol. 1 (Bonus Edition)


Most of my latino and black people
Who are struggling to get food, clothes and shelter in the hood
Are so concerned with that, that philosophysing about freedom
And socialist democracy is usually unfortunately
Beyond their rationale
They don't realize that America can't exist without separating
Them from their identity, because if we had some sense
Of who we really are, there is no way in hell we'd allowed
This country to put BLANK in our homelands
This ignorance exists but it can be destoryed
Niggas talk about change and working within this system
To achieve that
The problem with always being a conformist is that
When you try to change the system from within
It's not you who changes the system it's the system that will
Eventually change you
There is usually nothing wrong with compromisin' a situation
But compromising yourself in a situation is an other story
Completely and I've seen this happen long enough
In the few years that I've been alive to know that
It's a serious problem
Latino america is a huge colony of countries whose
Presidents are cowards in the face of economic imperialism
You see third world countries are rich places
Abundant in resources and many of these countries
Have the capacity to feed their starving people and the
Children we always see digging for food in trash on commercials
But BLANK in other word a government run by the rich
Such as this one and traditionally oppressive european states
Forced the third world into buying overpriced unnecessary goods
While exporting huge portions of their natural resources
I'm quite sure that people will look upon my attitude and sentiments
And look for hypocrisy and hatred in my words
My revolution is born outta love for my people not hatred for others
You see most of latinos are here because of the great inflation that
Was caused by american companies in Latin-America
Aside from that many our seeking are life away from the
Puppet democracies that were founded by the United States
Places like El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Nicaragua
Ecuador and República Dominicana and not just spanish
Speaking countries either but Haiti and Jamaica as well
As different as we have been taught to look at each other
By colonial society, we are in the same struggle
Until we realize that we'll be fighting for scraps from the table
Of a system that has kept us subservient
Instead of being self-determined and
That's why we have no control over when the embargo will stop in Cuba
Or when the bombs will stop dropping in BLANK
But you see here in America the attitude that is fed to us is that
Outside of America there live lesser people, fuck them
Let them fend for themselves
No, fuck you, they are you
No matter how much you wanna dye your hair blonde and put fake eyes in
Or follow an anorexic standard of beauty
Or no matter how many diamonds you buy from people
Who exploit their own BLANK to get them, no matter
What kinda car you drive or what kinda fancy clothes you put on
You will never be them
They'll always gonna look at you as nothing but a little monkey
I'd rather be proud of what I am rather than desperately trynna be
Something that I'm really not, just to fit in
And whether we want to accept it or not that's what this culture
Or lack of culture is feeding us
I want a better life for my family, for my children
But it doesn't have to be at the expense of millions of BLANK in
My homeland or given the idea that if we didn't have these people
To exploit that America wouldn't be rich enough to let us have these
Little petty material things in our lives
And basic standards of living
No that's wrong, it's the business giants and the government officials
Who make all the real money
We have whatever they kick down to us
My enemy is not the average white man, it's not the kid down the block
Or the kids I see on the street
My enemy is the white man I don't see, the people in the White house
The corporate monopoly owners, fake liberal politicians
Those are my enemies
The generals at the armies, that are mostly conservatives
Those are the real motherfuckers, that I need to bring into it
Not the poor broke country BLANK that are too stupid
To know shit about the way things are set up
In fact they have more in common with most
Working middle class white people than I do with most rich black
And latino people
As much as racism pleads America we need to understand
That classism is the real issue
Many of us stir in the same boat and it's sinking
While these boujiee motherfuckers ride on the luxury liner
And as long as we keep fighting over kicking people out
Of the little boat we're all in
We're gonna miss an opportunity to gain a better standard of living
As a whole
In other words, I don't want to stay at the plantation I wanna
Come back, free all my people, hang the motherfucker that
Kept me there and burn the house to the goddamn ground
I wanna take over the Encomienda and give it back to the people
Who worked the land
You cannot change the past, but you can make the future
And anyone who tells you different
Is a fucking lethargic devil
I don't look at the few talking latinos and the black people
In the public eye as some type of achievement
From my people as a whole
Most of those successful individuals are just sellouts and housenigros
But I don't consider brothers a sellout if they move outta the ghetto
Poverty has nothing to do with our people
It's not in our culture to be poor
It's only been the last 500 years of our history
Look at the last 2000 years of our existence
And what we brought to the world in terms of science, mathematics
Agriculture and forms of government
Know the idea of a confederation of provinces
Where one federal government controls the states
The europeans who came to this country stole that idea
From the Iroquois
The idea of impeaching a ruler comes from an Aztec tradition
That's why Montezuma was stoned to death by his own people
Cuz he represented the agenda of white spaniards once he was captured
Not the Aztec people who will become mexicans
So in conclusion
I'm not gonna vote for anybody just 'cause they black or latino
They have to truly represent the community and represent
What's good for all of us proletariat
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