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"Aye, you black, brown, yellow / then you struggling: simple / and can't forget my peoples are reds, too / yo, it's black, brown, yellow, and red, too / Babylon label us a gang in large groups / [...]" - Shing Shing Regime


Shing Shing Regime - We Strive [Official Music Video].


Flying Lotus - MmmHmm [Music Video] off Cosmogramma (2010).


Ken Boothe - Christopher Columbus + Dub (OBSERVER) 7" [Reggae].

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"But what we need now as a nation is maturity / and I ain't speaking from backpack purity / [...] what I'm really saying is that you are beautiful - think about it / [...]" - Abyssinian Creole


Abyssinian Creole - The Beautiful.

"The last half that I'm flowin' in / is for Latin, black, and Cambodian / Filipinos, Laotians, and all aboriginals coasted in / toasted skin [...] / listen closely, there is nothing wrong with you / you are exactly what you are supposed to be / beautiful, intelligent, and heaven-sent [...]" - Abyssinian Creole


Litefoot - Different People.


Night Shield, 2 8 Tha Native, & Yaiva - Hostile Takeover.

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The Crossroads Episode 18 - The "Imperyalismo Ibagsak" Edition

Imperyalismo Ibagsak - "Down with Imperialism" in Tagalog.


DJ Muggs x Bambu - Pow Wow Drums (off Soul Assassins: DJ Muggs X Bambu "Los Angeles, Philippines" Mixtape).  YouTube Description: "AZ SB1070 is a violation of basic rights, allowing law enforcement to profile citizens based on race. We cannot sit still and allow this to continue! Strategically boycott Arizona! For more information, please go to www.propeopleyouth.com [click here] and www.answerla.org [click here]."


Yelawolf - Lemonade (Verse Remix/Freestyle).

"And we could take it to Dakota, small towns, we can take it over / Yeah, ten million rocks, bet it up, we can make it a boulder / A shadow’s hangin’ over your shoulders, and we about to roll that over / And when the bitch come flyin’ down the hill, you better burn wheels like somebody told ya / Keys, goin’ to grab ‘em, Shits Creek, don’t leave the paddle / Get a poncho for the rain of battles, go Tonto, go get the saddle / ‘Cause I been on my travels since Adam bit the apple / [...]" - Yelawolf (Via.)

This is a live performance and the sound quality could be better.

Power Struggle Feat. Kiwi & Vicoy Bagongsigaw - 3 Basic Problems.

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The Crossroads Episode 15: The Copious RedCloud Visuals Edition

RedCloud - Boulevard Knights.


RedCloud - Battlestar Galactic.


RedCloud - When Kenpo Strikes.


RedCloud - Is This Thing On?

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The Crossroads Episode 10.5 - Johnny Spanish (Continued)

Johnny Spanish - Watch Your Mouth (The Lip).


"Johnny Spanish - you should fear 'im, boy / spitting all venom in your body got the serum for it  / like the Cherokee and Iroquois / we some baggage handlers, you just some errand boys / I'm fucking ill, I'm just so real I'm crying tears of joy / well, fuck the police we ain't paranoid / well - just a little / [...]" - Johnny Spanish

This one might be a stretch, but I think there are sometimes connotations in lyrics that could/might should be examined.

Johnny Spanish Feat. The Roots - Shiny (Remix).

"I came, I saw, I conquered / [...]" - Johnny Spanish (Chorus.)

"If I catch you bootlegging my shit, don't buy it / I'm-uh show you a pirate like Captain Jack Sparrow / rob you point blank with a knife, bow, and arrow / [...]" - Nappy Roots (First Verse.)

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Supaman Feat. Sabatage - Deadly Penz.  I think the Crow Hop thing is Christian rap; irrespective, this song is ill.


Krumb Snatcha Feat. Afu-Ra (Prod. by Karimbo) - Underground Ambassadors.

"Hip-Hop United Nations / One Love for the tribes on the reservations / do it for the streets / on the beats with the violin / subterranean heat like leviathan / [...]" - Krumb Snatcha


CunninLynguists - Old School.

"I'm so old school / I was at the Last Supper serving soul food / and arroz con poyo / but I betchu have no clue / the Pilgrims were the first to name women after produce / and that was the first Road Rules without toll booths [...] / I had American Indians / sending smoke signals with hydro / giving villages contact, matching blunts with Tonto / spelling S.O.S. with my eyes closed / I even battled Henry the VIIIth with my rhyme flows / and made his wives my hoes / [...]" - S.O.S.

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"The memory of oppressed people cannot be taken away and for such people revolt is always an inch below the surface." - Howard Zinn

Even The Rain movie trailer  (Via.)

I love Slick Rick, but this song is racist as . . .

Slick Rick - Indian Girl (An Adult Story).

"Freedom isn't given - it's taken / Freedom isn't free (It's earned) / Not known, it's learned / [...]" - Chrisette Michele

Chrisette Michele Feat. Talib Kweli & Black Thought - Let Freedom Reign.

"America the beautiful, suspect as usual / liberty and death, give me freedom or a funeral / I walk across the planet with the steps of a giant / my rhymes bridge the gap between religion and science / cause my evidence is spiritual / I know my sheer presence is a miracle / I wasn't supposed to be here to share with you / but here I am, standing with my chest out / I take my place in history I never get left out / you stressed out and scared so it's causing you to act hard / freedom ain't free, gotta put it on my black card / my passport claim I'm an American citizen / the constitution and three-fifths / I'm not a simian gorilla / make my songs stronger than the horn of Gideon / truth is [settlers(?)] gave the native people syphilis / consider this: Christopher Columbus ain't know where he was goin' / so let's stop calling our native brothers Indians." - Talib Kweli

"We were carried here in shackles from the homelands / [...] all I'm trying to do is stay true to my community / the daily news ain't the only thing schooling me / watching these haters operating with impunity / running out of time, out of sight, out of mind / it gets realer and it's real in Palestine / troubles of the world start to seem intertwined / war criminals, conflict minerals, pillagers are coming home / and five star generals telling lies in press conferences and interviews / I'm trying to take back the power because it's been abused." - Black Thought

[REPOST]

Lupe Fiasco Feat. Jay-Z - Sittin' Sideways (Verse Remix).

"I seen 'em brawl for it, right on the wall for it / get kicked out the mall for it, run from the law for it / see things they should've never saw for it / long as it all well, Almighty, alrighty, they all for it, uh / Blackhawk fitted, get hit in the jaw for it / blue and black,  - Lupe Fiasco (2nd Verse)

Also, rare photos of "uncontacted tribes" here (Yahoo news article) or here (Survival International; a charitable organization that attempts to help indigenous people worldwide maintain their traditional lifestyles and assert their aboriginal/treaty rights).

(Via.)

Click here to take action for uncontacted tribes if you care to.

(Pocahontas, like Sambo, is a racial stereotype.)

(Via.)

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