"Do We Need to Start a Riot?" - Jasiri X

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"Do We Need to Start a Riot?" is a response to the recent report by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement that states 110 Black people have been killed by the police in 2012, one every 40 hours

http://mxgm.org/report-on-the-extraju...

Filmed on location in New York City at the historic march to end Stop and Frisk, and in Los Angeles on Florence and Normandie, where the 1992 LA rebellion began, "Do We Need to Start a Riot?" features words from legendary Activist/Comedian Dick Gregory and Henry Watson, one of the "LA Four", charged in the beating of Reginald Denny and highlighted in the recent VH1 documentary "Uprising: Hip-Hop and the LA Riots, and appearances by the Universal Zulu Nation, Occupy the Hood, the Sound Strike, the League, and Hip-Hop Artist Tahir Jahi.

"Do We Need to Start a Riot?" was directed by Paradise Gray and Radee Westfield.

LYRICS
Ramarly Graham, they shot him
Alan Blueford, they shot him
Ken Chamberlain, they shot him
Kendric McDade, they shot him

Darius Simmons, they shot him
Bo Morrison, they shot him
Wendell Allen, they shot him
Justin Sipp, they shot him

Scared rappers be quiet
Scared preachers be quiet
Scared leaders be quiet
You're in the presence of warriors

Scared rappers be quiet
Scared preachers be quiet
Scared leaders be quiet
You're in a warrior's face boy
You can't call this a race war
Cause we the only ones they got hate for
That get shot down when the gage roar
But we always willing to take more
From Emmett Till on that lake floor
To Trayvon, Rekia Boyd
Mumia, Troy it's we destroyed
Since I'm public enemy I bring the noise

Marissa Alexander, they locked her
Jasmine Thar, they shot her
They keep trying to kill us
But they never get indicted
Our people crying loud
But them scared rappers stay quit
And if we don't get justice do we need to start a riot?

In 92 those riots grew
Peace treaty
red unites with blue
In LA the Crips and the Prius
Put aside the feud and started riding true
said the NOI was behind it to
Then Police came in to divide the crews
Steal a homies car them drive it through
Another gangs hood then fire the tool
Our unity is our biggest weapon
When I asks this question you feeling threatened
But imagined your child being killed for less and
It's 45 days for the killer arrested
mad at me cause I'm given a message
But if we can be killed by Zimmermans
And they can get off cause of privilege
Then our we really citizens
Get beaten to death if you a immigrant
Go back to your country is the sentiment
They call us monkeys say we ignorant
So we get killed they don't give a shit
Now what would you do if you were living this?
To protect your kids from this?
If ya child got killed would you live with it?
Would you slit you wrists would you get the fifth
Would you care about ya job our ya benefits?
If they said they murderer was innocent
No trial no jury no sentencing
And you saw how foul this system is
but they keep telling us to be patient
They keep tell us to keep waiting
They keep telling us that we hating
And when we're killed cause we black that we racist

Howard Morgan they shot em
Then for 40 years they locked him
They keep trying to kill us
But they never get indicted
Our people crying loud
But them scared rappers stay quit
And if we don't get justice do we need to start a riot?

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[Sevenyxxtimes7xx]

Now this is the music we need in life more then ever from a corrupt system. Good shit.

[usmc2076]

Need to learn to love one another...violence begets violence...it will solve nothing...in the end...love is all that matters...otherwise we will all destroy each other...regardless of race or skin color.....

[jeff9487]

And the truth is cops beat the shit out of low life blacks probably like some of your relatives because they deserve it and since blacks make up the majority of crime like your family they are obviously more likely to get their ass kicked by the cops, its just simple numbers that anyone who gave it any thought could figure out, if more whites committed violent crimes then more whites would get their ass kicked but whites don't and I'm sorry your race is the biggest failure out of all mankind.

[jeff9487]

You must have time to youtube stalk people because you replied to one of my comments and you probably don't have a career and if you do it's because of affirmative action and anyone who cant stand people of color like you must not have a life, I bet that's your favorite thing to say to everyone since you know everyone so well and you responded to me and it took you six days because you didn't have anything worthy of saying in the first place and you still don't and I'm sorry the truth offends u.

[musikenergy]

No. I just have a life and don't have time to youtube stalk people as I see you do. I have a real career, education, and life. God bless you as you continue to not understand why you're really angry. I know you will respond quickly because you have no self control, life, or grammar skills. :-)

[jeff9487]

Did it take you six days to come up with that? Did I miss the period at the end or something? I don't think the problem is my grammar at all, I think its your race.

[musikenergy]

I couldn't read or understand this rant. Please adhere to grammar I can understand.

[jeff9487]

O really? I've been searched more then any five blacks I've ever met and I'm white and the cops never beat the shit out of me so believing blacks are belatedly picked on by cops is delusional just like most blacks seem to be and obviously if the black crime rate for violent crime is about 36 times higher then the white rate then their will be more police brutality and I'm vary sorry the cops are "hard" so my advice is "don't fuck with them"

[musikenergy]

True. I hope he meant a movement and not a literal riot. :-)

[musikenergy]

NO. Thieves break into black people's homes too. Do you really think theives care about race or getting something they don't own? All races are targets because of idiots that don't want to work and get their own crap. Please know what you're talking about. I know black people with your mother in law's issue. Unless you've done a poll in that area knocking from door to door, you DON'T know.

[musikenergy]

You missed the whole point because you're trying to justify foolishness. Innocent people of ANY race do not deserve to be beaten or murdered. Statistically innocent African Americans and the poor are the ones who are affected by this. I've never broken one law and I've been searched just for driving a nice car. Please stop speaking from ignorance and learn some compassion for once. You are going off of image, not TRUTH.

[xvincexsugruex]

Heard this song played on the Bay Area's KPFA Free Speech Radio. Easily one of the greatest rap songs I have ever heard.