Police Related Death Lyrics - Mdc

Racism is as American as apple pie 

And if one black man dies who's gonna cry? 

Smashed and handcuffed and beaten to death 

One colored boy to deal with less 

A graffiti artist was his crime 

Mayor Koch says New York's finest are fine 

Can justice really be this blind 

Is the responsibility yours or mine? 

South Bronx elderly woman can't pay her rent 

She's a mental case so the SWAT team was sent 

Wouldn't open the door so through the window they went 

Blew her away in cold blood without regret 

Pregnant woman from east L.A 

Asked who knocked, they would not say 

Refused to answer, those sheriffs went wild 

Shot her in the stomach and she lost her child 

Just another police related death 

Those teenage boys from Texas caught with a little dope 

It was Black Freedom Day, a prayer and a hope 

Sent handcuffed in a boat to the middle of a lake 

The boat sank, the boys drown, precautions they did not take 

15,000 police homicides in America last year 

How many dents did it make in any policeman's career? 

The mayor and chief cry crocodile tears 

Just look a but concerned as election time nears 

Two sets of laws for the rich and the poor 

Look at the prisons and tally the score 

Black man's chance of prison one in four 

Prejudice and racism wrapped in class war 

If Malcolm and Martin were alive today 

How many lives of grief and pain they could relay 

And how for these injustices can anyone repay? 

And with what amount of sorrow can anyone convey? 

How much suffering must be endured 

before this social cancer can be cured? 

Do color and class make one good or bad? 

Doesn't prejudice and hate make humankind sad?