Anarchy: Black & White or Shades of Brown?

SHADES OF BROWN (Al Schvitz) by MDC

The say the darkest hour is just before the dawn
In chess, without exception,white moves the first pawn
They called it 'Black Tuesday' when the Stock Market crashed
A fix in 1919 turned the White Sox to Black
Black balled, black magic, executioner's hood
White hatted, white horsed, champion of good
Black night of Dark Ages on the darkest night
The Pope walks in truth, head to toe in white

Chorus

Who started all this bullshit - were they looking for a fight?
You didn't have to be there to know that they were white
But when you're talking skin tone, let's not fuck around
Cause no one's really black or white, we're all just shades of brown

Black hearted, black beard on the brineydeep
Or the family outcast you call the black sheep
Days of Black Plague - draw your final breath
Heading for Heaven white dying of Black death

Mankind is preoccupied to keep each other down
Some use superstition, a bible or a crown
At best it's fear and ignorance - at worst it's a sin
Not God or Country, king or crown, it's the pigment of our skin
Used to reinforce what is wrong or right
It's really just the presence or the abscence of light
In the blackest hour of the blackest day
It isn't mighty white of us, but we gotta say...

Chorus

Who started all this bullshit - were they looking for a fight?
You didn't have to be there to know that they were white
But when you're talking skin tone, let's not fuck around
Cause no one's really black or white, we're all just shades of brown

White when you marry, black when you die
A racial heirarchy. a festering white lie
White stands for ignorance, pure and sincere
But if you're talking bigotry, it should be crystal clear
The new world becond, The Immagrants came
Homogenized their culture, anglocised their names
Then they painted Jesus - blond with eyes of blue
Not a Nazarian, more a Nazi than a jew
In the Black Revolution with their Black Power found
Till all their leaders were jailed or stomped in to the ground
And the final step ironic - to nail that coffin tight
The powder of enslavements in their glassine bags of white

(Repeat chorus until this white male power srtucture falls)

Produced by MDC and Gary Creman
New Red Archives Records 1993