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Rip It Up By The Roots (Justice 4 The Jena 6)
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Justice for the Jena 6! http://www.countercurrents.org/woodward120707.htm
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Peak #863
Peak in subgenre #377
Author
Neil O'Brien
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March 30, 2010
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MP3 2.7 MB 128 kbps 3:00
Story behind the song
This is about the Jena 6 trial - a blatant instance of racist "justice". Originally recorded and released Thu Aug 16, 2007.
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In a town called Jena there grows a certain tree Which was thought to have died out in the 20th century And the remarkable thing about this tree is it's fruit It doesn't sprout nuts or berries, but it grows the hangman's noose It's favoured habitat is the American South Where rumours of it's revival have spread by word of mouth You see it has a certain power, it's a symbol to be harnessed And one day soon we'll have to gather it's harvest But in the meantime it's a season for fires For rumbling thunder and lightning striking the spires Of small town churches in this divided nation Power spreads through pews, electrifying the congregation As it did in the days of Martin Luther King See the crisis and tension, is this history recurring? Cos i see deprivation and i see segregation But what i don't see is the powers that be making reparations Break it's branches and shear it's shoots Tie a chain round it's trunk and rip it up by the roots This dead and rotten wood is an ugly anomaly A throwback to the days of racial inequality Break it's branches and shear it's shoots Tie a chain round it's trunk and rip it up by the roots This white tree of bigotry is a disgrace to the nation It's time distinctions of race were made to face extinction How can you justify wrecking six young lives With the stroke of a pen across their personal files Conspiracy, manslaughter, the law pushed to the max The real conspiracy in Jena is grinding down all the blacks You can't have one rule for some and another for the rest Grab the gun from your attacker and he does you for theft That's a crazy situation and it makes no sense It's a willful distortion of your right to self-defense But things are no better when it all comes to court With a jury so biased they might as well have been bought And how's about a lawyer so lacking in fitness The defence never got a chance to call a single witness A lot of people thought that this was yesterday's fight: Are your rights conditional on your skin being white? But that's the situation in the town of the white tree And in a town with no justice there can be no peace
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