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This commentary on black lives during "white" Christmas drives home the gut fear and injustice of brutal police killings on unarmed blacks. This hip hop legend takes us through a single night, Christmas Eve, and shows the devastation of an encounter with the cops and a black son heading home. Keywords: Rap tragedy shootings cop killings police shootings black lives matter Freddie Gray Tamir Rice Michael Brown Eric Garner Trayvon Martin unarmed blacks cops kill shoot shooting killing no weapon police brutality no gun found no weapon shoot first unprovoked death by cop police murders Christmas Eve holiday accidental death bullet police revolver handcuffs arrest detained face down hand behind back racism racist bigot bigots systemic racism prejudice bias race relations distrust of police racial tensions slavery oppression hood hoodie skin color race African American ghetto projects street violence protest protesters riot anger hatred injustice blood civil rights equality suppression Ferguson riot gear militarization of police police state hands up don't shoot innocent struggle rights law enforcement deadly force weapon drawn crime conviction jail sentence prison petty crimes suspect face down choke hold blacks niggers restrain accuse ex con drugs marijuana misdemeanor sheriff south lynching lynch mob white privilege white supremacists supremacy male superiority law enforcement officer officers Jim Crow
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Warm-hearted holiday song about using love as a beacon to guide you home. Uptempo with a soaring, memorable chorus. Use for a traveling scene or montage, or as a peak moment when someone who has left wants to come back. A homecoming song, a family song about belonging, needing family and friends, Male Vocals, Christmas, Christmas Pop
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Lyrics:
Intro: Fast Eddy took a video of the whole incident
V1: Jamal walking fast and listening to a beat
Like his headphones connect directly to his feet
Got an black china doll in his left hand
The homeys on the stoops wouldn’t understand
But that’s okay, Moms is gonna smile
Been wanting this doll a long, long while
Second job at the diner lets her out at 3:00
Jamal will have her present sittin’ under the tree
Cop says, “Hey, put your hands up, Boy
Where you runnin’ to with that stolen toy?”
“It’s not a toy, it’s a real antique”
Cop says, “We got us a smart-ass freak”
I got a receipt, he reaches in his pocket
Cop pulls a gun, Jamal hears him cock it
Second cop rides him face down, knee in his back
Doll goes flying, Jamal sees it’s face crack
Two broken black faces starin’ ‘cross the asphalt
In the red white and blue cop car lights
It’s still a white Christmas ‘round here
For everyone else it’s a
You-have-the-right-to-remain-Silent
Night as dark as a black man’s dreams
Holy
Night when another black mother screams
Christmas child handcuffed tight
On a you-have-the-right-to-remain silent night
Fast Eddy took a video of the whole incident
V2: Fast Eddy wasn’t fast, that was just his name
Ran six blocks to the diner just the same
He saw two cops from the Black Lives rally
So he waited for Moms in the shadows of an alley
Moms came stumblin’ from the diner on her lame leg
In a borrowed dress that smelled like bacon and eggs
Friend drivin’ by pulls up to the curb
“Here’s that twenty I owe you,” he hands it to her
Cop says, “Stumblin’ drunk and turnin’ tricks
On Christmas Eve, you make me sick.”
Grabs her arms real tight so he’s sure he’ll bruise her
Tells his black partner, “Put this trash in the cruiser”
Partner has to choose being a cop or being black
His kids need groceries, he cuffs her hands behind her back
“My purse I need it—the only thing that’s mine”
He puts the handles round her head-hangs it like a sign
If that sign had words it would say in bold letters
“Innocent until proven black” so don’t fight
It’s still a white Christmas ‘round here
For everyone else it’s a you-have-the-right-to-remain-
Silent
Night as dark as a black man’s dreams
Holy
Night when another black mother screams
Mother and child both handcuffed tight
On a you-have-the-right-to-remain silent night
Fast Eddy fell to his knees
He thought he could hear angel voices
Had a phone in his hand and a bullet in his chest
Cops had taken away all his dreams and choices
They wanted that phone with the video in it
So they ended his life in a New York minute
He fell on his face and tried to believe
A miracle would save him on Christmas Eve
Acapella:
Snow started falling, painting the bloodstained sidewalk
pure white
it’s still a White Christmas round here
For everyone else it’s a you-have-the-right-to-remain
Silent
You have the right to remain
They shut you up to shut you down
Silent
Trying to get you to leave this town
You have the right to remain
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You Have the Right to Remain Silent Night