Critical Literacy Lyrics

Born in the system, made by who I ask

What’s the agenda, the plan, objective the task

Power, privilege, oppression the mask

Hidden, and layered, in everyday it just has

You and I, not questioning, accepting the class

Blatantly, it has nothing to do with your ass

So I ask out loud, how’d it get this way

Taught in education, society, in the work-place

My points been made, its always been this way guy

So who created and laid this foundation that made my

Conditioned way of thinking “institutionalized mind”

So the average guy is blinded, with the hate in the eyes

I can relate to my biases and dissonance

That I created from my values and resisted it, but did you resist,

But did you hear me you can’t

Its OK….. it’s critical literary. Come on

What’s the language, I can hear them speak

You wouldn’t if you couldn’t if your eyes can see

But me I see it, cuz I live in Long Beach

Why is that? So you ask whats that Critical Literacy

What’s the language, I can hear them speak

You wouldn’t if you couldn’t if your eyes can see

But me I see it, cuz I live in Long Beach

Why is that? So you ask whats that Critical Literacy

My mom said to look both ways, before I cross

But how many walking the walk and talking the talk

If I were to ask the question who is accountable

To say were post racism, in America Is just bull

So let me pull the wool over your eyes, so you can see

When your easily manipulated by the G

To the R, double e to the D, I’ll break it down, letter by letter, lyrically

G for the gangster mentality I see, make your own rules is an eye for eye creed

R for the riches that are made easily

E for the execution that is made by the hierarchy, the other

E is for engulf, cuz the culture is buried

And the D is for the destruction and the plan the man carries,

You see the man is married to himself and his money

I’m talking critical literacy not talking Japanese dummies. Come on

What’s the language, I can hear them speak

You wouldn’t if you couldn’t if your eyes can see

But me I see it, cuz I live in Long Beach

Why is that? So you ask whats that Critical Literacy

What’s the language, I can hear them speak

You wouldn’t if you couldn’t if your eyes can see

But me I see it, cuz I live in Long Beach

Why is that? So you ask whats that Critical Literacy