By: Ronnie N. Sidney
Title: Apathy
2004


Wasting time at a job,
paying minimum wage.
Rather it’s Bush or it’s Kerry,
That shit ain’t gone change.
Rather It’s Bush or it’s Kerry,
Or Marion Berry.
There’s a system in tact,
To stop us from caring.
They give us the issues,
When we going through it.
Then they get in office,
don’t wanna pursue it.
No child left behind,
Rather it’s school or at home.
A ghetto’s a ghetto,
The ghetto’s their home.
Academic, suspended,
or honorable mention.
School’s just a place,
That diverts their attention.
This and that legislation,
Man make up your mind.
We want reparations,
put in overtime. 
We died in your wars,
Gave up sons and daughters.
Were enslaved by your father,
Who’s face on the quarter.
3/5ths of a man,
civil right’s, civil wrongs.
Plantations to projects,
From bondage to bonds..                                                          
We laugh and we joke,
But the joke is on us.
It’s the bullet or ballot,
The vote lies with us.
I’m sick of this bullshit,
Just living to die.
Give my life for this movement,
Man fuck getting by.
My kids gotta eat,
When this praying gone stop.
We Been shaken and stirred,
But can’t rise to the top.
They stunting our growth,
gotta know what they doing.
UVA for the whites,
only blacks go to Union.
Either miseducated,
Or incarcerated.
If we already we made it, 
Then why won’t we make it.
These hustlas and fiends,
Descend from king and queens.
Your ancient ancestors,
Schooled the Europeans.
Victory is ours,
We gone work it out.
We a living testimony,
Of what glories about.
The Jesus they praise,
Is the one they oppress.
The God that we’re under,
We must fight to suppress.
This world is a mess,
And we’re under attack.
The enemy in D.C.,
And not in Iraq.