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Powerless Position

from Uncle Sam by SC Static & Militant Marxman

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Powerless Position

(Verse)
You either take the real truth or our history’s side
Rewritten and revised because Lady Liberty lied
But we still rise as we stand at attention
For the home of second chances and land of invention
And the equal pursuit of happiness that God graces
Amongst the hotdogs, coalminers, and skyscrapers
With over 12 million citizens
Who came from overseas as Ellis Island immigrants
To raise a family, a wife with a few girls
In pursuit of a new life in a new world
Once they had grown to depart from home
Until their were more Italians in New York than Rome
Until overpopulation in the states would grow
Till building upwards became the only place to go
Which led to the invention of steal they would use
Which required 3000 degrees of heat to produce
To create tall buildings, ships, railroads, and cars
By workers without a harness or safety rope as a guard
Not even a hard hat for 6 hours a day
Without access to a toilet or bathroom break
Just mankind against the forces of nature
For 4 dollars a day as the wage for the labor
At the time was double the going rate of a job
But 2 out of every 5 were disabled or died
Then shortly after elevators were invented
Of course the higher your floor is, the higher that your rent is
So tryna afford it’s an occupation struggle
In New York, Pittsburg, and Chicago the population doubled
In 1890 as a product of the beast
As the inner cities’ death, crime, and poverty increase
So Thomas Burnets the Detective Chief
Incorporated 3rd degree interrogation techniques
1st persuasion, 2nd intimidation
3rd is pain to get all the information
By putting fear in the criminal’s eye
Which led to future convictions for them admitting to crimes
With no birth certificates or photos to hold trial
Before mugshots and psychological profiles
Then the first national crime registry started
By distributing information to other departments
With slums reaching epidemic proportions
And sickness amongst the residents is enormous
Since New York City’s immigration unfurled
Making it the single most crowded place in the world
So to regulate the flow of population control
They’d elevate the role of this rotten nation’s patrol
By locking up citizens and arbitrated a way
To keep 22 million incarcerated today
Which is more than the population of some states
With essentially zero effect on the crime rate
Cause it’s to make money for the CCA
Cause the Corrections Corporation of America today
Have equated prisoners to selling cars and real estate
And 1.7 billion dollars every year they make
As the price for their felonies actions
Plus private prisons give out twice as many infractions
In which these penalties can lengthen your sentence
Making officers the enemies with strengthened agendas
To put them in a cage where no one can escape
The more prisoners enslaved, them more money they make
As they sneak occupancy clauses in the contracts
Requiring private prisons to be filled to the max
And if the jail cells aren’t full all the time
The state government has to pay the private prisons a fine
As an incentive to keep people in prison as long as possible
To maximize the profits of their stocks to keep their pockets full
Which then became a monetary requirement
To encourage punishment like solitary confinement
With inhumane devastating effects
Confined to a room as wide as king size bed
Invented by the Quakers but was later removed
Which even then was ruled and viewed as too archaic and cruel
After it proved to cause suicide inside minds
And unable to tell how much time has gone by
From a fucked up prolonged lack of social contact
That was banned for a century till we brought it back
To torture prisoners and keep them in fear
Given from 80 to 100 thousand people a year
And you would think it would be used on the hardest and realest
But is mostly used on convicts that the guards don’t want to deal with
But even the worst criminals don’t deserve this
Delirium, permanent brain damage, what’s the purpose?
Cause there’s no reason this should still be allowed
But some are mistreated without even going to trial
Then when they do depend on what the court Marshall’ll charge you
And more times than not the judge is far from impartial
Even without sufficient evidence to defeat you
Cause the jury’s given are made up of regular people
Who are prejudice and subjected to personal bias
So the jury’s final verdicts aren’t always the wisest
So more times than not, their decisions are backwards
Less likely to be guilty if considered attractive
Or wear glasses just to weather the fight
Of hidden opinions and unfair stereotypes
Cause race still plays a major part and stronger emphasis
On not only being guilty but given longer sentences
To spend the rest of their miserable days
In a solitary cell as a literal slave
Which is the last thing we need on this planet
Don’t ever take your free will or your freedom for granted
And I’d like to use my stance to spread the word and effect
Cause white privilege only works to a certain extent
So now we’re following this cowardice tradition
And unfortunately stuck within this Powerless Position

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from Uncle Sam, released November 25, 2021

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