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I've heard it all before
That, "Your mission has a cause I cannot ignore
But I can't abide the people, looting robbing stores
When there's violence on the rise, promise I abhor it
I'm glad the law's enforced."
Well you're not informed
There's a long history of violent necessity
In defiance of oppression, the kind to set you free
To provide a people with human rights and dignity
Sit down and start listening as I
Take you back in time: 1789
The French Revolution reverberating around
Aristocratic blood on the streets makin' it shine
And the news would reach half of a million slaves at the time
On the isle of San Domingue- you and I call it Haiti
The richest colony with a half a million in slavery
Provider for the world with the finest of sugar cane
And a death rate faster than people could make babies
A population that was split into three ways
The whites and mix-raced rich could keep slaves
Conditions under which were brutal for these days
They were beat, burned, chopped into bits and re-raped
Meaning raped repeatedly/ and robbed of their decency
But the National Assembly in France has recently
Decreed that everyone under God could equally
Live honestly, decently- and Haiti was listening
At the time, enlightenment writers tried to appeal
By a means peacefully/ writing and legally
Implying that people had them a right to being free
That iron was evilly depriving a people under the guise of Christianity
Lives traded for savagery
Wives taken as property
Child breaking normality's
People kept in chains deprived basic humanities population suffered with Lives facing depravity
Free slaves asked for more rights for the Haitians
Peacefully, they would implore whites for the basics
Aristocratic whites ignored the signs blatant
'Till a warm August night the storm finally came in
Thunder, lightning, broken people uniting
Woah, isn't it frightening- so vivid and striking