Skit 1

Song Skit 1
Artist Lowkey
Album Soundtrack to the Struggle...

Lyrics

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[00:04.58] What Malcolm X said when he got silenced by Elijah Mohammed
[00:08.31] was in fact true: America's chickens... are coming home to roost.
[00:19.18] We took this country by terror,
[00:23.04] away from the Sioux, the Apache, the Arowak, the Comanche, the Arapahoe, the Navajo.
[00:30.71] Terrorism.
[00:31.39] We took Africans from their country to build our way of ease and kept them enslaved and living in fear.
[00:39.36] Terrorism.
[00:40.92] We bombed Granada and killed innocent civilians, babies, non-military personnel.
[00:47.13] We bombed the black civilian community of Panama with stealth bombers
[00:51.83] and killed unarmed teenagers and toddlers, pregnant mothers, and hardworking fathers.
[00:56.41] We bombed Qaddafi's home and killed his child.
[00:59.78] Blessed are they who bash your children's head against a rock.
[01:03.40] We bombed Iraq. We killed unarmed civilians trying to make a living.
[01:07.57] We bombed a plant in Sudan to payback for the attack on our embassy,
[01:12.09] killed hundreds of hardworking people, mothers and fathers
[01:15.07] who left home to go that day not knowing that they would never get back home.
[01:18.92] We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki
[01:22.04] and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York
[01:25.51] and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye.
[01:30.53] Kids playing in the playground,
[01:32.49] mothers picking up children after school, civilians, not soldiers,
[01:36.56] people just trying to make it day by day.
[01:38.41] We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians
[01:42.04] and Black South Africans and now we are indignant
[01:46.19] because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards.
[01:54.83] America's chickens are coming home to roost.
[02:02.04] Violence begets violence.
[02:05.17] Hatred begets hatred.
[02:07.39] And terrorism begets terrorism.