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Impulsive Semantics

from м​я​т​е​ж / Samarra Split by Samarra

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WILL:
privileged rhetoric
ignorance perpetuated
continued offenses congeal into malign
some never stop to think
not all language is at their disposal
oppression is packaged and sold
as humor from the internet and television
watch your tongue
it licks the filthy feet of a white america
vernacular has suffered greatly
in such an era of such shameless exceptionalism

DREW:
screaming hurtful words into the faces of the downtrodden
heaping abuse on shoulders with the least strength to bear them
is it your comfortable life that leaves you so numb
to the suffering of others?
watch your tongue
your words arm the guns at the heads of the oppressed

[This song is about appropriative use of AAVE by white people on social media and in film and television. Sentiments coated in "irony" are just as racist as anything else. - Will]

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from м​я​т​е​ж / Samarra Split, released November 1, 2017

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