Immortal Technique Homeland and hip hop Lyrics:
To think about the origins of hip hop in this
culture and also about homeland security is to see
that there are at the very least two worlds in
America. One of the well-to-do and the struggling.
For if ever there was the absence of homeland
security it is seen in the gritty roots of hip
hop. For the music arises from a generation that
feels with some justice that they have been
betrayed by those who came before them. That they
are at best tolerated in schools, feared on the
streets, and almost inevitably destined for the
hell holes of prison. They grew up hungry, hated
and unloved. And this is the psychic fuel that
seems to generate the anger that seems endemic in
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much of the music and poetry. One senses very
little hope above the personal goals of wealth and
the climb above the pit of poverty. In the broader
society the opposite is true, for here more than
any place on earth wealth is more wide spread and
so bountiful. What passes for the middle class in
America could pass for the upper class in most of
the rest of the world. They're very opulent and
relative wealth makes the insecure. And homeland
security is a governmental phrase that is as
oxymoronic, as crazy as saying military
intelligence, or the U.S Department of Justice.
They're just words that have very little
relationship to reality. And do you feel safer
now? Do you think you will anytime soon? Do you
think duck tape and Kleenex and color codes will
make you safer? From Death row this is Mumia Abu
Jamal
Lyrics: Homeland and hip hop, Immortal Technique [end]