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Powerless Position (Marxman Remix)

from Uncle Sam (TradeMarx Remixes) 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 (TradeMarx Remixes), released December 25, 2021

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