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White Liberals Clap

from April 2015 Demo by youthcrush

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This song draws connections between racism, capitalism and neo-liberalism. It's about the tension of living in a city that is majority people of color and run by white liberal democrats. Milwaukee has the highest rates of black male incarceration and unemployment in the country and is the most segregated in terms of both race and class, yet is often praised and portrayed as a progressive stronghold. What does it mean to live in a city that is put on a pedestal for it's liberal values while people of color are being pushed farther to the margins and being killed by police and white vigilantes with no consequences? What does it mean to live in a city run by liberal democrats that is growing more and more segregated? Derek Williams, Corey Stingley, and Dontre Hamilton (along with Daniel Bell, Ernest Lacy, Darius Simmons, Bo Morrison, James Perry and many more) are the names of black men killed by police or white vigilantes in the Milwaukee area. White liberals must examine, deconstruct and destroy their complicity with white supremacy and violence (physical, economic and emotional) toward people of color.

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Endemic poverty
investment opportunity
Downtown expansion
Foreclosed homes
Build more condos
Redlined Neighborhoods
Redlined lives

Gentrify Crucify
Incarcerate Marginalize
Over police
Institutionalize
Benign neglect
Slow genocide

Bike lanes and boutiques
Damn isn't this city chic
Highways divide
Poverty on the rise
Crime rate falls
Talk remains black on black crime
Obscure the issues
Ignore the truth

Increase fear
Increased patrolling
White liberals clap
White liberals clap
Derek Williams
Corey Stingley
Dontre hamilton


Internal investigations
Internal review

White Killers acquitted
inner city convicted

White liberals clap
White liberals kids listen to rap

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from April 2015 Demo, track released April 12, 2015

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