You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train

[Intro: Howard Zinn]
Governments lie all the time
Well, not just the American government, it's just in the nature of governments
Well, they have to lie. And since they all represent the people, in some sense they act against the interest of the people
The only way they can hold power is if they lie to the people

(You don't know what I know, you can't see the spreading state
Of deception, I am cruel to myself, things will never be the same)

If they told people the truth they wouldn't last very long

(I will hold my silence like a weapon in my hand
If I used it I would murder myself
You could never understand)

[Verse 1: Vinnie Paz]
Columbus came ashore greeted with nothing but niceness
Sailing west in attempt to find gold and spices
Dominated by the popes in frenzy for ices
The Catholic church expelled jews and claimed it was righteous
The first man to see land would get a reward
And get a yearly pension for life clearly from God
young sailor saw land said, "We isn't far"
Columbus lied, said he saw it the evening before
They touched ground, they were greeted by the Arawak
Columbus had them locked up as prisoners in an hour flat
He wanted to find their source of gold and that was that
And when they thought that wasn't fair then he stabbed their back
When there's no more gold he took slaves instead
And left a quarter million Indians in Haiti dead
The men died in mines, the women died at work
The children died from lack of milk and they died in the dirt
They were just taking advantage of a passive people
They were just being the savages of massive evil
That's the church work, that's the path of massive ego
That's the blood of Abraham being stabbed by the steeple
In 1619 they were patiently waiting
For a ship that carried slaves that was changing the nation
The white man was the cannibal praying to Satan
Hatred contempt a pity of patronization
That's the corner stone everything racism based in
The African had a more advanced civilization
Black was slave, master was white, rationalization
50 million dead, that's Western civilization
At first they appeared in the North
And they were helpless in the face of superior force
And all of them were chained together, they really was lost
Racism is a natural that's merely divorced
Before the slave trade black was considered distasteful
By the Oxford dictionary, I find it disgraceful
It's not a natural tendency to be bitter and hateful
It's the natural enemy of the critical stable
Slavery grew as the plantation system grew
The reason for that's kinda easily traceable
Society of helpless dependence was capable
Or saying,  [bad word] a slave master, you're in slavery too"
Seven slaves was put to death for murdering master
Fear of slave revolt had them developing faster
You a cataline killer, ineloquent [bad word] I would burn the white man while smelling the ashes
From time to time white man was part of the resistance
White indentured servants wanted no part of the system
King Philip's War showed that if people would listen
That they can maybe break the complex chain of oppression
Tyranny is tyranny, but that's a concession
But the women they was treated like * * possessions
Black women had to work cause they was abused
That's the white justification of Aryan blues
The next move was to dominate the Mexicans
James Polk dominated them like they was next of kin
He sent Colonel Cross to lie to them and let them in
11 days later, his skull was crushed, so message sent
"We take nothing by conquest," that was the ?
The military wasn't human, they was just monsters
Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his taxes
Denounced the Mexican War and got locked in shackles
The twentieth century opened, anger reemerged
The reality of ordinary life was being heard
Anarchists