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  1. Despair : Strange Fruit by Billie Holliday (1939)
  2. Revenge : Born Dead by Ice T : Body Count (1994)
  3. Hope : l have a Dream by Martin Luther King (1963)

 


 
 

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pucej.gif (1020 octets)Despair : Strange Fruit by Billie Holliday (1939)

Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves, and blood at the root
Black body swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene from the gallant South.
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
And the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop.
Here is a strange and bitter crop!

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pucej.gif (1020 octets)Revenge : Born Dead by Ice T : Body Count (1994)122ko
Record Label: Cema/Virgin
Release Date: 09/06/94
Catalog Number: 39802
© (p) 1994 Virgin Records

1994 Body Count, still in the house. They did everything they could do to take us out, but like any good monster that just made us stronger.
 

You see, they don't like us and they don't like you, the Body Count fans, 'cause they know we stand for three things, truth, justice, and fuck the American way !
That word justice got me fucked up though.
Twenty cops in the street, two go to jail.
Thousands of people died in wars overseas and it's justice ?
You think they give a fuck about us ? You're a fool !
Born yellow, born brown, born red, born black. BORN DEAD ! DEAD ... We're BORN DEAD
Born Asian, born Jewish, born Latino, born poor, BORN DEAD! DEAD ... We're BORN DEAD
But you don't hear me though,
Anything that's gonna confuse us they'll throw at us DEAD !
US military officials say, Iraqi officials say, US military officials say, Iraqi officials say
New York, DEAD ! ! Atlanta, DEAD ! ! Chicago, DEAD ! ! Oakland, DEAD ! ! Miami, DEAD ! Detroit, DEAD !
Every day I gotta get out my mutherfuckin' bed, put on my mutherfuckin' gun down in my mutherfuckin' pants, 'cause 
mutherfucka's out trippin'.
How the fuck you gonna make it to the next evening.
Do you understand ? Sometimes we take for granted the little things like food, like freedorn.
Born in Somalia, born in South America, born in South Africa, born in South Central, BORN DEAD ! DEAD
BORN DEAD We're BORN DEAD ! 

tiret_blue.gif (889 octets) Here is Ice T's statement printed on the Body Count CD cover : " This album is dedicated to all the people of color throughout the entire world : Asian, Latino, Native American. Hawaiian, Italian, Indian, Persian African, Aboriginal and any other nationality that white supremacists would like to see born dead.
We are not minorities ! We are the Majority ! Unity between oppressed people is the true fear of the enemy. The sooner we realise we are on the same side. The sooner we can join together and kill the monster. Divide and conquer is their tactic. Unity is ours.
This album is also dedicated to the white youth of the world who have the courage to go against their racist parents and friends to fight with us for peace !"


 

pucej.gif (1020 octets)Hope ; l have a Dream by Martin Luther King (1963)
 

I say to you today my friends, so even though we pay the difficulties of the day and the moment, I still have a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed : " We hold these truths to be self-evident that we are all created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedorn and justice
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.