<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><h1 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: -0.03em; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 36px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;">An Equality Rap</h1></div><div><br></div><div>by Lucy Parsons</div><div><br></div><div><p style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's hard to understand the world of today,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">I sometimes question the message to kids we convey.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">We pretend we're all equal and have the same rights,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Whether you're a boy or a girl or if you're black or white,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">It's not true, it's fake, it's a pretend game they play,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">They talk of the issues being equal, they play,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">With our hearts, with our minds and news from day to day,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">But the truth is we're not, it's a truth they won't say.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Do you see yourself as a boy or a girl? do you like the same sex or just give it a whirl? <br style="box-sizing: border-box;">It's doesn't really matter how you see how you are,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">There's always judgement surrounding the "unknown," or "bizarre"<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">This oppression is old yet people cling to the idea,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">A thought process which is bound by their "what if" fear,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why must women run around with big problems and situations? <br style="box-sizing: border-box;">While men run around like big kids with temptation?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Women get paid less money for doing the same job,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">While men lavish their wages paying for a blowjob,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">From a desperate women with a family to feed,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Yet she's prayed by those with a ravenous greed,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">While behind closed doors there's a child being beating and hurt,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">His face is all bruised from being pushed in the dirt,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">By bullies who beat cos they don't understand,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">what's happening at home and no one makes a stand,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">For this poor little boy can no longer take,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The aggression and hurt that he had to take,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">From day to day his confidence gets from worse to worse,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">So goes back to his bedroom to end his own curse,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Then the papers print money from the boy who fell,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Those ravenous greedies laughing their way to hell,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">It's upsetting to look the truth in face,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">When there's so much going wrong in this concrete place,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Which we all call home it's more like a disgrace,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Everywhere you look there's a charity case.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;">So if you want to spread an equality message,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Get up,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Find your voice, <br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Get a mic,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">And express it.</p></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></body></html>