Black Rage (ferguson Dedication) Lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Black Rage is founded on two-thirds a person 

Rapings and beatings and suffering that worsens 

Black human packages tied up in strings 

Black rage can come from all these kinds of things 

Black rage is founded on blatant denial 

Squeezed economics, subsistence survival 

Deafening silence and social control 

Black rage is founded on wounds in the soul 

When the dogs bit 

When the beatings 

When I'm feeling sad 

I simply remember all these kinds of things and then I don't fear so bad 

Black rage is founded: who fed us self hatred 

Lies and abuse, while we waited and waited 

Spiritual treason, this grid and its cages 

Black rage is founded on these kind of things 

Black rage is founded on draining and draining 

Threatening your freedom to stop your complaining 

Poisoning your water while they say its raining 

Then call you mad for complaining, complaining 

Old time bureaucracy drugging the youth 

Black rage is founded on blacking the truth 

Murder and crime, compromise and distortion 

Sacrifice, sacrifice who makes this fortune? 

Greed, falsely called progress 

Such human contortion, 

Black rage is founded on these kinds of things 

So when the dogs bit 

When the beatings 

And when I'm feeling sad 

I simply remember all these kinds of things and then I don't fear so bad 

Free enterprise, is it myth or illusion? 

Forcing you back into purposed confusion 

Black human trafficking or blood transfusion? 

Black rage is founded on these kinds of things 

Victims of violence both psyche and body 

Life out of context is living ungodly 

Politics, politics 

Greed falsely called wealth 

Black rage is founded on denial of self 

When the dogs bit 

When the beatings 

When I'm feeling sad 

I simply remember all these kinds of things and then I don't fear so bad 

So bad