David Lee Morgan: ROAR (riot)

"Sous les pavés, la plage" (under the pavement, the beach) was a slogan from the revolutionary upsurge of May 1968 in Paris.

ROAR

"I don't call it rioting, I call it an insurrection of the masses of the people" Darcus Howe BBC interview

Bang out of the barrel of a gun I sped
Into the body of a black man
Into the body of a black
Boy boy boy
Assume the position
Spead'em wide
In front of your girl friend
In front of your mother
In front of your daughter and son
Put you in prison, yes, and I kill plenty, but even better, I make you into your own death penalty. I am the war on terror. You are the enemy within. Man or woman, high or low. Don't bother to show me your diploma; it's there on your skin.

You are the flame of resistance that I can never quite extinguish. You are the angry fire that I fear more than truth, and I am the definition of liar.
You are the light that blazed up in Tottenham and a hundred other places so bright it could be seen across the Mediterranean
I am the darkness waiting
You are the stand-up-straight of a new generation. You are the broken glass and torn up pavement. You are the golden beach beneath, if only you can find it.
I am the man on the TV calling you mindless

I watch you
Change into every color and race
Communicate in ways I can't keep up with
Be brave a thousand times in every hour
But look around. I still have power

I am the bullet and the gun. I am the serpent tongue
I move armies, empty bellies, turn bones to dust
I am a treasure chest of fantasy, pleasure and shame
I have access to your brain more often than you do
I'm running with you on your feet, it's my arm too
That torched your neighbour's shop, my fingers you
Must free from an iron grip around your thoughts
Kettling you, ghetto-ing you, four long days and nights
Letting you burn the wrong places, keeping you out of the right
Revolution is a hurricane and the wind blows wildly
When young lions roar in pain and strike out blindly
Jackals hide in the tall grass waiting their chance
Until you learn to fight with wisdom, I rule the dance

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I make you into your own death penalty......until you learn to fight with wisdom I rule the dance...........