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=Vestiges of Slavery=

"There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he is become their equal..Slavery recedes, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary." - [|Alexis DeTocqueville], 1835 __Democracy in America__

"Slavery is indeed gone, but its shadow still lingers over the country and poisons more or less the moral atmosphere of all sections of the republic...If a crime is committed, and the criminal is not positively known, a suspicious looking colored man is sure to have been seen in the neighborhood." - [|Frederick Douglass], 1881. __North American Review__

Changes (verse 2) I see no changes all I see is racist faces misplaced hate makes disgrace to races We under I wonder what it takes to make this one better place, let's erase the wasted Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right 'cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight and only time we chill is when we kill each other it takes skill to be real, time to heal each other And although it seems heaven sent We ain't ready, to see a black President, uhh It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact the penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks But some things will never change try to show another way but you stayin' in the dope game Now tell me what's a mother to do bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you You gotta operate the easy way "I made a G today" But you made it in a sleazy way sellin' crack to the kid. " I gotta get paid," Well hey, well that's the way it is

-Tupac

media type="youtube" key="nG4nbAUG9Kg" -The video footage of the [|Rodney King] (image of King after) beating, 1991.

Status Quo __My reflection__