Cutting Crime
(A song parody addressing New
York City's "Stop and Frisk" policy based on Justin Timberlake's "Suit and
Tie") by Rev. Reynard N. Blake, Jr.
Mike feels "Stop And Frisk,"
"Stop And Frisk," time is, right
Mike feels "Stop And Frisk,"
"Stop And Frisk," times fit
Men find color dictates
things
Dictates things, followings,
white folks' safety more
Mike feels "Stop And Frisk,"
"Stop And Frisk," times fit
Mike feels "Stop And Frisk,"
"Stop And Frisk," times fit
Why don't you go to branding?
Why don't you go to branding?
[Verse 1]
Why are Brothers prime
targets for shake downs at downtown?
Going out as folks, not like
a suspect?
Can't undercovers observe
folk at Wall Street?
Watch those crimes "cause they rob blind
White people seem like they merit watching
Cause if they're studied close, real close
They might learn something
Middle-Eastern Americans are quite patriotic
Respect life, all life
[Hook]
Black and brown hog tied for imagined crimes
Folks believe all of those stereotypes
And Bloomberg thinks he's justified
Constitution's worth nothing
Rights printed in black and white
And brothers get frisked more than whites
Modern lynching in the broad daylight
Latinos "cuffed so tightly
Latinos "cuffed so tightly
Cops show disrespect to our young
Crime seems to be black or brown
Do we know who is guilty?
PO-PO can't act like robots though
Hey
[Verse 2]
N-Y-C gets what from Stop And
Frisk?
It's not "
Stop And Frisk's not
constitutional or is it?
Is that right? What about whites?
Bloomberg you're Jewish and
know history
Nazis targeted Jews but,
police target blacks
Mike Bloomberg, why do this?
Are you a racist?
Whites get frisked too, all
right?
[Hook 2]
Latinos and Brothers get trapped like mice
Harlem is whiter for the second time
Latino round-up can seem fine
And the brothers found the same
Both pat down and stigmatized
Targeted for some Riker time
Fairness put on backburners most times
Won't the race riots commence?
Won't the race riots commence?
Guns found under white people's clothes
While you're in there, search for drugs
Let the PO-PO act fairly
Laws don't make Mayor Bloomberg God
[Verse 3/Jay-Z part parody]
Hunt blacks and Latinos
It don't matter what brothers
think
Y'all sit back and watch boys
be frisked more
Police believe whites seem
harmless
Stats point out that
Bloomberg's hell-bent on his quest
Ain't this discrimination?
Blacks fill the prison
complex as planned
Private jails get fed
Years of distress, prison
complex
Finances dictate how some get
sentenced
Justice system means what?
Brothers get steamrolled for
no reason
And prisons remain full
And the public is soothed
Stacked-high brothers on bed
bunks
For small joints of marijuana?
Some papers, catch vapors
Get high, at their house
So why the hell should folks face the system
When banks scrub money for a cartel hidin' cash flows
And their lawyers get them off because they have tools
"Cause tha legal system works hard as a cover
Cartels just as bankers, just get off
Like insider fund traders, hun!
[Hook 3]
Black and brown hog tied for imagined crimes
Folks believe all of those stereotypes
And Bloomberg thinks he's justified
Constitution's worth nothing
Rights printed in black and white
And brothers get frisked more than whites
Modern lynching in the broad daylight
Latinos "cuffed so tightly
Latinos "cuffed so tightly
Cops show disrespect to our young
Crime seems to be black or brown
Do we know who is guilty?
PO-PO can't act like robots, though
Hey
Author's Bio: Reverend Reynard N. Blake, Jr.,
M. S. is an ordained Baptist minister living in
