Nina Simone - *Mississippi Goddam*

Mississippi Goddamn!

Woe to America, the Great Beast, the Whore, the Serpent that deceived the world. Woe to America for every hurtful thing she has done to her slaves and their descendants, to the Native Americans, the Latinos, Asians and poor whites referred to as trailer house trash. Woe to America, the blood sucker of the poor, the raper of minds and bodies of the innocent, who keeps the poor and ignut trapped in the world of make believe perpetuated by the Monkey Mind Media. Woe to America, for every piece of Strange Fruit she hanged on trees, threw in rivers, swamps and creeks. Woe to America, for every hateful, unclean bird that has gathered to devour the soul of the righteous.

Woe to America, who even at this hour has no desire, no will, no intention to deliver justice to the three million slaves held in her dungeons, jails and hell holes throughout this wicked land.
Woe to America, who will bomb the poor, the righteous and the innocent before she will share the wealth, redistribute the wealth stolen from this land and around the world in the name of free market slavery. It is beyond her mental capacity to conjure the words "Fair Market, Just Market."

Woe to America, may her rivers wash away the guilty, the hate mongers, the hard hearted and niggardly. Too bad the innocent must be consumed because they find themselves living among the guilty, but when the wrath of God comes there are no innocent except those who flee to higher ground, who find solace in the Upper Room of our Father's House.
--Marvin X
5/18/11