I'm gonna get me some
dynamite
And I'll bring me a crane
And then blow it up
I'll tear down and start out
And then blow it up
I'll tear down and start out
all over again
Tobacco Road, Tobacco Road
And I love you, yeah
Because you're my home
But you're dirty and you're filthy
Tobacco Road
Tobacco Road, Tobacco Road
And I love you, yeah
Because you're my home
But you're dirty and you're filthy
Tobacco Road
I'm gonna blow you up
I'm gonna tear you down
And I'll build me a town
That I will be proud to show
But I'll keep the name
I'm gonna keep the name
I'm gonna keep the name
A Tobacco Road, a Tobacco
And I'll build me a town
That I will be proud to show
But I'll keep the name
I'm gonna keep the name
I'm gonna keep the name
A Tobacco Road, a Tobacco
Road [Tobacco Road lyrics
© Universal Music
Publishing Group, EMI Music
Publishing]
Sometimes when I'm going through it.. I like to sit back and listen to this kind of music. A drink would be nice while listening to this as well. Anything to get through the racism and bullshit we as black people face in this life. Racism is guaranteed. I get it. I live in the South and I am constantly reminded of that by others. However, I also understand racism is not limited to the South.
It's a shame we as black people just can't get the fucking credentials and get the damn job based off of our credentials and not be PRE-JUDGED and CATEGORIZED and PLACED IN BOXES by those in the power elite within corporate America. Sometimes I wonder how far would blacks in this country really have come if the playing field was truly level? If so many brilliant minds which came up against these nasty white guys in the South running these companies didn't give up and continued to fight.
So often we listen to trivial music. The Rihannas the Lil Wayne's of our time. These guys will never know how it feels to be wheeling and dealing within Corporate America. Their music lacks substance although it sounds good. This music, by Lou Rawls, takes me back to understanding what we go through as black people in this country. It's a reminder of the pain of our forefathers and the pain of our present. I like to listen to this when I come home from dealing with a stressful day of being mistreated and abused and discriminated against.
Damn.. We must really be God's people for him to place us in such a constant F'ing Struggle for equality.
A country divided against itself cannot stand. If every disenfranchised African American in the U.S. rose up and sided with the Taliban or the Arabs that hate this nation, we could do some major damage. The U.S. had better start working to proactively include us in its economic prosperity (and work to stop the corporate racism that is still taking place today), or it may have a major problem on its hands in the future.