White Power

[Intro]

Greenspan runs this country

He's a Jew

White trash

White power

White trash

White power

White power, white power

White power, white power

White power, white power

White power, white power

White power

[Verse 1: Ras Kass]

White power is creatin' hate where at first there was none

From Chinese gun powder, the invention of the gun

From ancient Egypt, still, civilization

Then used miseducation to rewrite creation

De-Africanize the Sphinx and re-white his face and

Displace the race and be quite complacent

We livin' in a real District 9

Master race convince other people to de-humanize

White power is against world peace

It'd rather cut the world in pieces

Let every European nation make colonies after natives defeated

Monopolize every natural resource and bleed it

White power is not freedom, white power is the semen

That implies dark-skinned people inferior to light people

The same demon that conquered and raped other cultures

Got the children of the rapists thinkin' they're better than they brothers

So all around the world from America to the Outback

White power prefers we be without black

I got nothin' but love for my Latinos

But Puerto Rico, why deny your heritage is negro?

White power is Spain conquerin' Asians

Renamed Filipinos, teach 'em to mistreat the indigenous

They called Negritos (Nigga)

But they really the same people, if you darker, you less equal

So you got lighter-skinned Indians treated better than the darker

Same thing Brazil, Mexico, Jakarta

Black Cubans, or so-called, "Just Cuban"

When genetically you the same race and we all just human

White power is foolin' you and idolizes itself

Makes you a second class citizen while it takes your wealth

White power is self-hate and Stockholm syndrome

So as I knock on your dome, you are not home

[Chorus: Immortal Technique]

Perception is the power that racial hatred devours

Cowards rewrote the history that is ours

Conquest is the sweet smell of a poisonous flower

The slave master is the savage in the final hour

Perception is what white power relies on

Racial division, the system to build lies on

There is only one human race that exists

I reclaim the past when I raise my fist

[Verse 2: Ras Kass]

White power is forty-one million blacks tryna escape the ghetto

Crabs in a barrel that push Maybach pedals

Youngsters blast metal for iced-out bezels

13-year-old girls in 6-inch stilettos

Name every exotic car brand to upscale apparel

But barely read and write on a fifth-grade level

Blame they condition on some mythological devil

With red skin, two horns, and a pitchfork

Two hundred years, we bottom on the food chain

Think white power did it on accident? You's a new slave

White power prefers the middle class better runnin' the economy

Pay lower wages to the women than minorities

Create COINTELPRO, Jim Crow

Send police dogs on children 'cause we march for equality

It's the War on Crime, the War on Terror

White supremacists who refuse to look in the mirror

White power instigates black power and brown pride

Locks 'em in prison and make sure that they collide

Says the inner city ignorant, but they the ones who taught us

Says go back to Africa when they the ones who brought us

White power wants more walls and more border patrol

But white power stole the southwest from Mexico

Hate immigrants, but they've all immigrated from Europe

Neo-Nazis claimin' they blood the purest

A false racial superiority, false sense of purity

'Cause all mankind came from little African pygmies

So every genetic possibility is in me

Blue eyes, blonde hair, Aryan, Asian

Syrian, Armenian, but in the end

White power taught the world to despise the black man

But still want his bitch with full lips, round ass

And a nice tan, nice plan

See, white power is conflicted, it hates who it loves

It imitates who it denigrates to escape who it was

Took a African religion in plain sight, man

By the 1500's, Jesus Christ became a white man

And when it suits its goal, have you on the front line fightin'

White power is the emcee who keeps switchin' his hype man

Sri Lanka versus India, Tutsi versus Hutu

Palestinian versus Jew, nigga, you, too

[Chorus: Immortal Technique]

Perception is the power that racial hatred devours

Cowards rewrote the history that is ours

Conquest is the sweet smell of a poisonous flower

The slave master is the savage in the final hour

Perception, that's what white power relies on

War's the foundation capitalism lies on

The battlefield the American soldier dies on

From Basra, Kandahar, Mogadishu to Saigon

[Interlude]

Why do we hate?

We hate because we're taught to hate

We hate because we're ignorant

We're the product of ignorant people who had been taught an ignorant thing which is that there are four or five different races

There are not four or five different races, there's only one race on the face of the Earth and we're all members of that race, the human race

But we have separated people into races, so that some of us, can see ourselves as superior to the others

We thought it would work, I guess, but it hasn't and has been bad for everyone

• Artist:Ras Kass
• Album:Soul On Ice 2