Song | The Poverty of Philosphy |
Artist | Immortal Technique |
Album | Revolutionary Vol. 1 (Bonus Edition) |
[00:00.000] | 作曲 : Felipe Coronel |
[00:00.353] | 作词 : Felipe Coronel |
[00:01.60] | Most of my Latino and black people who are struggling to get food, |
[00:05.96] | clothes and shelter in the hood are so concerned with that, |
[00:08.86] | that philosophising about freedom and socialist democracy is usually unfortunately beyond their rationale. |
[00:15.22] | They don't realize that America can't exist without separating them from their identity, |
[00:19.78] | because if we had some sense of who we really are, |
[00:22.39] | there's no way in hell we'd allow this country to push it's genocidal consensus on our homelands. |
[00:27.36] | This ignorance exists, but it can be destroyed. |
[00:30.41] | ******* talk about change and working within the system to achieve that. |
[00:35.58] | The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, |
[00:40.80] | it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you. |
[00:45.46] | There is usually nothing wrong with compromise in a situation, |
[00:48.83] | but compromising yourself in a situation is another story completely, |
[00:52.95] | and I have seen this happen long enough in the few years that I've been alive to know that it's a serious problem. |
[00:58.90] | Latino America is a huge colony of countries whose presidents are cowards in the face of economic imperialism. |
[01:05.63] | You see, third world countries are rich places, abundant in resources, |
[01:09.30] | and many of these countries have the capacity to feed their starving people |
[01:14.00] | and the children we always see digging for food in trash on commercials. But plutocracies, |
[01:19.12] | in other words a government run by the rich such as this one and traditionally oppressive European states, |
[01:24.44] | force the third world into buying overpriced, unnecessary goods while exporting huge portions of their natural resources. |
[01:32.47] | I'm quite sure that people will look upon my attitude and sentiments and look for hypocrisy and hatred in my words. |
[01:39.84] | My revolution is born out of love for my people, not hatred for others. |
[01:44.65] | You see, most of Latinos are here because of the great inflation |
[01:49.61] | that was caused by American companies in Latin America. |
[01:52.12] | Aside from that, many are seeking a life away from the puppet democracies |
[01:55.93] | that were funded by the United States; places like El Salvador, |
[01:59.60] | Guatemala, Peru, Columbia, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Republica Dominicana, |
[02:04.92] | and not just Spanish-speaking countries either, but Haiti and Jamaica as well. |
[02:09.57] | As different as we have been taught to look at each other by colonial society, |
[02:13.91] | we are in the same struggle and until we realize that, |
[02:16.82] | we'll be fighting for scraps from the table of a system that has kept us subservient instead of being self-determined. |
[02:23.33] | And that's why we have no control over when the embargo will stop in Cuba, or when the bombs will stop dropping in Vieques. |
[02:29.43] | But you see, here in America the attitude that is fed to us is that outside of America there live lesser people. |
[02:36.36] | "******* them, let them fend for themselves." |
[02:39.02] | No, ******* you, they are you. No matter how much you want to dye your hair blonde and put fake eyes in, |
[02:45.63] | or follow an anorexic standard of beauty, |
[02:48.03] | or no matter how many diamonds you buy from people who exploit your own brutally to get them, |
[02:52.01] | no matter what kind of car you drive or what kind of fancy clothes you put on, you will never be them. |
[02:58.28] | They're always gonna look at you as nothing but a little monkey. |
[03:02.21] | I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperately trying to be something I'm really not, just to fit in. |
[03:07.77] | And whether we want to accept it or not, that's what this culture or lack of culture is feeding us. |
[03:12.96] | I want a better life for my family and for my children, |
[03:17.44] | but it doesn't have to be at the expense of millions of lives in my homeland. |
[03:20.61] | We're given the idea that if we didn't have these people to exploit then |
[03:24.57] | America wouldn't be rich enough to let us have these little petty material things in |
[03:27.44] | our lives and basic standards of living. No, that's wrong. |
[03:32.01] | It's the business giants and the government officials who make all the real money. |
[03:36.31] | We have whatever they kick down to us. My enemy is not the average white man, |
[03:41.03] | it's not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the street; |
[03:43.90] | my enemy is the white man I don't see: the people in the white house, the corporate monopoly owners, |
[03:48.91] | fake liberal politicians those are my enemies. The generals of the armies |
[03:53.33] | that are mostly conservatives those are the real Mother-******s that I need to bring it to, not the poor, |
[03:59.47] | broke country-ass soldier that's too stupid to know *******t about the way things are set upIn fact, |
[04:04.92] | I have more in common with most working and middle-class white people than I do with most rich black and Latino people. |
[04:13.10] | As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue. |
[04:18.46] | Many of us are in the same boat and it's sinking, |
[04:21.56] | while these bougie Mother-******s ride on a luxury liner, |
[04:24.33] | and as long as we keep fighting over kicking people out of the little boat we're all in, |
[04:28.58] | we're gonna miss an opportunity to gain a better standard of living as a whole. |
[04:32.29] | In other words, I don't want to escape the plantation I want to come back, |
[04:36.85] | free all my people, hang the Mother-****** that kept me there and burn the house to the god damn ground. |
[04:42.87] | I want to take over the encomienda and give it back to the people who work the land. |
[04:47.22] | You cannot change the past but you can make the future, |
[04:51.30] | and anyone who tells you different is a ******* lethargic devil. |
[04:55.30] | I don't look at a few token Latinos and black people in the public eye as some type of achievement for my people as a whole. |
[05:02.12] | Most of those successful individuals are sell-outs and house Negros. |
[05:06.44] | But, I don't consider brothers a sell-out if they move out of the ghetto. |
[05:10.44] | Poverty has nothing to do with our people. It's not in our culture to be poor. |
[05:14.56] | That's only been the last 500 years of our history; |
[05:17.52] | look at the last 2000 years of our existence and what we brought to the world in terms of science, |
[05:22.67] | mathematics, agriculture and forms of government. |
[05:26.03] | You know the idea of a confederation of provinces where one federal government controls the states? |
[05:30.85] | The Europeans who came to this country stole that idea from the Iroquois lead. |
[05:35.11] | The idea of impeaching a ruler comes from an Aztec tradition. |
[05:38.97] | That's why Montezuma was stoned to death by his own people |
[05:42.13] | 'cause he represented the agenda of white Spaniards once he was captured, not the Aztec people who would become Mexicans. |
[05:48.45] | So in conclusion, I'm not gonna vote for anybody just 'cause they |
[05:53.62] | black or Latino they have to truly represent the community and represent what's good for all of us proletariat. |
[05:58.62] | Porque sino entonces te mando por el carajo cabron gusano hijo de puta, |
[06:05.24] | seramos libre pronto, viva la revolucion, viva la revolucion! |
[06:09.82] | by og |
[00:00.000] | zuò qǔ : Felipe Coronel |
[00:00.353] | zuò cí : Felipe Coronel |
[00:01.60] | Most of my Latino and black people who are struggling to get food, |
[00:05.96] | clothes and shelter in the hood are so concerned with that, |
[00:08.86] | that philosophising about freedom and socialist democracy is usually unfortunately beyond their rationale. |
[00:15.22] | They don' t realize that America can' t exist without separating them from their identity, |
[00:19.78] | because if we had some sense of who we really are, |
[00:22.39] | there' s no way in hell we' d allow this country to push it' s genocidal consensus on our homelands. |
[00:27.36] | This ignorance exists, but it can be destroyed. |
[00:30.41] | talk about change and working within the system to achieve that. |
[00:35.58] | The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, |
[00:40.80] | it' s not you who changes the system it' s the system that will eventually change you. |
[00:45.46] | There is usually nothing wrong with compromise in a situation, |
[00:48.83] | but compromising yourself in a situation is another story completely, |
[00:52.95] | and I have seen this happen long enough in the few years that I' ve been alive to know that it' s a serious problem. |
[00:58.90] | Latino America is a huge colony of countries whose presidents are cowards in the face of economic imperialism. |
[01:05.63] | You see, third world countries are rich places, abundant in resources, |
[01:09.30] | and many of these countries have the capacity to feed their starving people |
[01:14.00] | and the children we always see digging for food in trash on commercials. But plutocracies, |
[01:19.12] | in other words a government run by the rich such as this one and traditionally oppressive European states, |
[01:24.44] | force the third world into buying overpriced, unnecessary goods while exporting huge portions of their natural resources. |
[01:32.47] | I' m quite sure that people will look upon my attitude and sentiments and look for hypocrisy and hatred in my words. |
[01:39.84] | My revolution is born out of love for my people, not hatred for others. |
[01:44.65] | You see, most of Latinos are here because of the great inflation |
[01:49.61] | that was caused by American companies in Latin America. |
[01:52.12] | Aside from that, many are seeking a life away from the puppet democracies |
[01:55.93] | that were funded by the United States places like El Salvador, |
[01:59.60] | Guatemala, Peru, Columbia, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Republica Dominicana, |
[02:04.92] | and not just Spanishspeaking countries either, but Haiti and Jamaica as well. |
[02:09.57] | As different as we have been taught to look at each other by colonial society, |
[02:13.91] | we are in the same struggle and until we realize that, |
[02:16.82] | we' ll be fighting for scraps from the table of a system that has kept us subservient instead of being selfdetermined. |
[02:23.33] | And that' s why we have no control over when the embargo will stop in Cuba, or when the bombs will stop dropping in Vieques. |
[02:29.43] | But you see, here in America the attitude that is fed to us is that outside of America there live lesser people. |
[02:36.36] | " them, let them fend for themselves." |
[02:39.02] | No, you, they are you. No matter how much you want to dye your hair blonde and put fake eyes in, |
[02:45.63] | or follow an anorexic standard of beauty, |
[02:48.03] | or no matter how many diamonds you buy from people who exploit your own brutally to get them, |
[02:52.01] | no matter what kind of car you drive or what kind of fancy clothes you put on, you will never be them. |
[02:58.28] | They' re always gonna look at you as nothing but a little monkey. |
[03:02.21] | I' d rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperately trying to be something I' m really not, just to fit in. |
[03:07.77] | And whether we want to accept it or not, that' s what this culture or lack of culture is feeding us. |
[03:12.96] | I want a better life for my family and for my children, |
[03:17.44] | but it doesn' t have to be at the expense of millions of lives in my homeland. |
[03:20.61] | We' re given the idea that if we didn' t have these people to exploit then |
[03:24.57] | America wouldn' t be rich enough to let us have these little petty material things in |
[03:27.44] | our lives and basic standards of living. No, that' s wrong. |
[03:32.01] | It' s the business giants and the government officials who make all the real money. |
[03:36.31] | We have whatever they kick down to us. My enemy is not the average white man, |
[03:41.03] | it' s not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the street |
[03:43.90] | my enemy is the white man I don' t see: the people in the white house, the corporate monopoly owners, |
[03:48.91] | fake liberal politicians those are my enemies. The generals of the armies |
[03:53.33] | that are mostly conservatives those are the real Mother s that I need to bring it to, not the poor, |
[03:59.47] | broke countryass soldier that' s too stupid to know t about the way things are set upIn fact, |
[04:04.92] | I have more in common with most working and middleclass white people than I do with most rich black and Latino people. |
[04:13.10] | As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue. |
[04:18.46] | Many of us are in the same boat and it' s sinking, |
[04:21.56] | while these bougie Mother s ride on a luxury liner, |
[04:24.33] | and as long as we keep fighting over kicking people out of the little boat we' re all in, |
[04:28.58] | we' re gonna miss an opportunity to gain a better standard of living as a whole. |
[04:32.29] | In other words, I don' t want to escape the plantation I want to come back, |
[04:36.85] | free all my people, hang the Mother that kept me there and burn the house to the god damn ground. |
[04:42.87] | I want to take over the encomienda and give it back to the people who work the land. |
[04:47.22] | You cannot change the past but you can make the future, |
[04:51.30] | and anyone who tells you different is a lethargic devil. |
[04:55.30] | I don' t look at a few token Latinos and black people in the public eye as some type of achievement for my people as a whole. |
[05:02.12] | Most of those successful individuals are sellouts and house Negros. |
[05:06.44] | But, I don' t consider brothers a sellout if they move out of the ghetto. |
[05:10.44] | Poverty has nothing to do with our people. It' s not in our culture to be poor. |
[05:14.56] | That' s only been the last 500 years of our history |
[05:17.52] | look at the last 2000 years of our existence and what we brought to the world in terms of science, |
[05:22.67] | mathematics, agriculture and forms of government. |
[05:26.03] | You know the idea of a confederation of provinces where one federal government controls the states? |
[05:30.85] | The Europeans who came to this country stole that idea from the Iroquois lead. |
[05:35.11] | The idea of impeaching a ruler comes from an Aztec tradition. |
[05:38.97] | That' s why Montezuma was stoned to death by his own people |
[05:42.13] | ' cause he represented the agenda of white Spaniards once he was captured, not the Aztec people who would become Mexicans. |
[05:48.45] | So in conclusion, I' m not gonna vote for anybody just ' cause they |
[05:53.62] | black or Latino they have to truly represent the community and represent what' s good for all of us proletariat. |
[05:58.62] | Porque sino entonces te mando por el carajo cabron gusano hijo de puta, |
[06:05.24] | seramos libre pronto, viva la revolucion, viva la revolucion! |
[06:09.82] | by og |