[MUSIC PLAYING]
History keeps unfolding, cranky and indignant
like Mussolini waking up after a long nap.
Nero fiddles.
I'm going to wait for the midnight hour.
Burn, baby, burn.
The law is not about justice.
Rome is burning again.
The law is a game like cowboys and Indians,
like Spaniards and Aztecs.
It's 20 years later, and Rome is still burning.
The law is a game.
And the ones with the most guys or the biggest guns
get to be winners.
Burn, baby, burn.
The hands of the past are scrubbing themselves raw,
but nothing, nothing comes clean.
Burn, baby.
Burn.
Wake up, little Susie.
Wake up.
Does it implode?
Does repressed aggression ravage the collective soul?
There's rioting now.
I see the blaze-red smoke rising.
The city burns.
People are looting, taking things,
all the excess denied them.
Crimes of possession, to have without the onus of color
or fear of rejection.
Children carry racks of clothes.
Women push shopping carts brimming with food.
Men seem to favor liquor stores and gun shops,
but what we need, what we need, what we need is revolution.
What we need is a revolution.
What we need is revolution, bloodless or otherwise.
We must go deeper than lust gratified
in one spontaneous torrid upsurge of rage.
I am a soldier.
Look at my hair fallen out under stress.
Many hours unappreciated on the job, not even a decent chair.
Call me collateral damage.
And when all those foreign battles are won,
will we who battle here at home have our day,
our day in democracy's sun?
Good Americans are not their brothers' keepers.
Good Americans wear blindfolds on their blindfolds.
Good Americans have front-row seats in heaven.
Decent Americans don't hear the tortured screams.
Good Americans ask only that god grant them the serenity
to accept the things they cannot change--
[LAUGHTER]
--and the ability to ignore the things they can.
Good Americans.
There is a sanctioned evil that allowed Black people
to be hung from trees and burned to death,
sanctioned by biblical passages on slavery.
There is a sanctioned evil that allows churches and parents
to turn their backs on friends and families who
are sick with AIDS.
There is a sanctioned evil that beat Rodney King in the street
that night. (ECHOING) There is a sanctioned evil.
Non-Ramadan seeks a lot to represent
the forefather, guilty altruistic element.
Man, to what?
Man collected every color of the entire rainbow that
curates the non-stop brother.
The quest to represent how many edge dagger signifies a one,
but it represents the latter.
Individual culture 'cause I am what I live.
Brown is my color, personal identity,
individual culture 'cause I am what I live.
Brown is my color plus no identity.
Institute of one, yup, yup, yup.