Sidewalk Chalk - Them, Us lyrics

[Chorus] All we hear is them, us, them, us, them, us, them All we hear is, all we hear is [Verse 1: Rico Sisney] They say,"Poor might be the new black." It's the old one Race is just the new cla** I was told once How the Irish became white Kenyans, Jamaicans, Cubans Nigerians, Brazilians, Haitians and more became black The Moors were erased fast That's tragic as Othello Puritans use to view blackness as of the devil Nation of Islam said whiteness was of the devil And through it all the same dynasties kept going In my heart of hearts I feel for those who fought as hard as they could against oligarchs And at times even got as far as watching things fall apart But once Humpty Dumpty becomes a T-1000 What can we do about them? [Chorus] [VERSE 2: Marga Marion] Oh world, wake up world As the sun rises beyond the horizon, life your heavy eyelids Oh world, wake up world As the line drawn between two sides fades away, fades away We realize the side we choose is all the same Nothing to separate us, no one to blame [Chorus] [VERSE 3: I inspected my hoodie to see if it was Trayvon's After a middle-aged, wealthy white man with a gun told me what he was afraid of: Me His response to the images he'd seen on television screens was to Take up arms to protect his family from lawless mobs of black kids Take up arms like that FBI informant, Richard Aoki, told Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, founders of the Black Panther Party "Take up arms before you take this iconic photo" And from that point on, one point out of their Ten Point Program would forevermore define them Not Freedom, not Education, not Employment, not Housing, not Free Breakfast for Kids, not even Reparations but arms And now we see them Taking up arms in Ferguson Hands held higher than heads for Mike Brown who, right now, looks like every black or brown kid He certainly looks like me And I've debated... I've debated whether or not to blame my doppelgängers For every time I was stopped by a cop that thought I was a robber or gang banger Apparently I fit a description given by a witness who would prefer to remain nameless As I heard the same statement: "We've had a disturbance in the neighborhood." I was a disturbance to the neighborhood "There's some hood at the neighbors! I think he's from some neighboring hood or block!" Wonder why I cringe at the words neighborhood watch? When a flip of a switch is all it takes for good cops to become k**er cops? For good protestors to start screaming "k** the cops!" Will it stop? I say, "Yes" When I'm feeling optimistic because Our position of opposition is not a given But for some reason... All we hear is them, us, them, us, them, us, them All we hear is, all we hear is [Marga Marion] Can we find a way? Can we find a way? [Rico Sisney] Put one finger in the air. Just one finger in the air [OUTRO] We must Do better At loving Each other