Am now 100% committed to statehood for all U.S. colonies.
S/O to my auntie in Ponce
for talking sense to me in the years following 9/11.
My thoughts... revised to match the will of my Puerto Rican people.
AmeRican: "Marginal People" (2004)
by El QuQo
Bob Marley once saw us
as everyday people
as everyday people
but, some only see us
as marginal people
as marginal people
their love for our island
is some kind of see-through
plasticity
capable of elasticity
and condescending toxicity
they see straight through
to our goodness
good only to be janitors
able to clean up their corporate sh*t
good only to be shoeshine boys
able to shine wing-tipped shoes with spit
good only for Operation:
Iraqi Liberation
O. I. L.
sending innocent Muslim children
to a fiery Christian hell
craniums exploding wide
by AmeriKKKan military shells
these could very well be YOUR children
if the world ever makes it
past the year two thousand twelve
you see...
it seems...
our so-called "President"
actually thinks that he's Moses
don't even care who the f**k knows this
but... unlike Wyclef
I'll be around past November
perpetual coal
re-igniting the embers
step up... close the curtain
turn the lever... and push
my vote will be a bucket of water
to throw upon this Burning Bush
for all the victims
of these imperialistic wars
the "Word of Hope" has finally spoken
extend on down to Bushman's token
they call him Mista Colin Powell
a first generation patriot living on the prowl
trying to fulfill
his little wish list
which really comes off
like a 9/11 hit list
Iraq... check
Cuba... check
Puerto Rico... welfare cheque
no... wait!!
scratch that!!
Statehood is not an option
and neither is their Freedom
let them continue their bureaucracy
pretend to give them some democracy
keep these foreigners suspended
cause in Iraq
their lives'll be expended
I was born political
ever since you drew that dotted line
across my grandfather's embittered little soul
and sought to connect our dots
in the form of what YOU considered
to be YOUR version of population control
"Hysterectomies for all!"
They said...
"All you muthaf**kas up against the wall!!"
"Why not stick to playing baseball?!"
"Why don't you...
shake your ass into submission
whilst your land becomes our colonial acquisition?!",
say all the blah-blah-blah politicians
who never care about our transition
to Puerto Rican ES.TA.DI.DAD
under constant surveillance
by an all mighty F.B.I. squad
by an all mighty F.B.I. squad
make sure to keep the "loud ones" down
liken our movement
to a mere convention of clowns
CO-IN-TEL-PRO
f**k a "quid pro quo"!!
targeted from head to toe
said we were planning to "overthrow"
your colonial installation
how dare we even think
of the secession of OUR nation?
driven to ideologically fail
our beloved Puerto Rican patriots
were trapped inside the U.S. jails
for doing exactly what YOU did in 1776!!
fighting for our rights
righting all our fights
and focused their attention
on the RESPECT for Puerto Rico
I said...
my muthaf**kin' name ain't "Chico"!!
and you surely ain't "the man"
though history says you have the upper hand
to carry your "Big Stick"
acting like you're really "down" for us
but, whenever it comes down to discuss
each and every one of you
seem to miss the f***in' bus
you relegate our issues
to the bottom of the pile
our freedom fighters got put away
without a right to trial
the Fourth of a Lie
still ain't taste that apple pie
once upon a time
our fight was calm and docile
but, injustice and outright thievery
has made us f***in' hostile
AmeriKKKa never really listens
to what we have to say
the words of our patriotic liberators
always seemed to be outweighed
by the misinformation
which has been made into foundations
and the appearance of plantations
for your multi-nationalist corporations
using all your underhanded
C.I.A. coercions
to make us all believe in your
capitalistic-type assertions
which only serve the very rich
and leave the rest of us to die
inside some Middle Eastern ditch
we look to the heavens for our salvation
before our people are forced into prostration
the dirt tastes better with a little "salsa"
there's a different grade of soil
in the land owned by the bourgeois
4 generations later
our issues continue to be dismissed
but, now... more than before
you're seeing more Boricua fists
even against these so-called "Democrats"
who speak against "Republican" aristocrats
but, forget about us after they are nominated
our island will continue to be dominated
forget that they don't make good
by us
for us
with us
cause we're just
the "Commonwealth of Puerto Rico"
"Common"
is for all the rest of us
"Wealth"
is only for AmeriKKKa's noblesse
from the mainland
speak against them
see how FAST
you get the back hand!
STATEHOOD
is our only hope
elevation of our island nation
getting an EQUALITY relation
doesn't have to be in the crosshair's range
rather more like an even-type exchange
our people...
for our selves
maintaining our integrity
realising our identity
bring about a favourable amenity
in a land of ultimate serenity
if the Democrats keep saying that:
"Hope is on the way."
let's "hope" they don't only mean
the good ol' U.S.A.
because there are 4 million island souls
with duct-taped mouths and empty bowls
been so long under their control
most have lost the sight
of our true Boricua goals
forget doin' the "Rockaway"
I can't afford to be leanin' back
and if I try to lean forward
these muthaf***as'll try to tax my crack
the only dance I do
is moving right and left
my eyes remaining open
to prevent any more AmeriKKKan theft
I am one of these marginal people
standing outside the circle
to watch all these muthaf**kin' "Erkels"
running around with their campaigning
feeling like most of them are feigning
but...
we'll see when it's time
we'll see when it's time
to actually follow through
with issues that are
over a hundred years overdue
whatever will become
of AmeriKKKa's "toilet bowl"
in the shining Carib-BE-an?
a place no one ever thought
of someday ever freeing??
so, now we've become to them
a permanent nuclear base
one day this island target
might just very well become erased
our culture... once and for all
turned from marginal to subliminal
though the writing was clear upon the wall
"this land ain't your land"
this land is their land"
from the Great Samoa
to Puerto Rico's islands...
from infested forests
to the poisoned waters...
this land's not made for you and me!!"
copyright 2004