Racism is as American as apple pie   And if one black man dies who's gonna cry?   Smashed and handcuffed and beaten to death   One colored boy to deal with less      A graffiti artist was his crime   Mayor Koch says New York's finest are fine      Can justice really be this blind   Is the responsibility yours or mine?      South Bronx elderly woman can't pay her rent   She's a mental case so the SWAT team was sent   Wouldn't open the door so through the window they went   Blew her away in cold blood without regret      Pregnant woman from east L.A   Asked who knocked, they would not say   Refused to answer, those sheriffs went wild   Shot her in the stomach and she lost her child      Just another police related death      Those teenage boys from Texas caught with a little dope   It was Black Freedom Day, a prayer and a hope   Sent handcuffed in a boat to the middle of a lake   The boat sank, the boys drown, precautions they did not take      15,000 police homicides in America last year   How many dents did it make in any policeman's career?   The mayor and chief cry crocodile tears   Just look a but concerned as election time nears      Two sets of laws for the rich and the poor   Look at the prisons and tally the score   Black man's chance of prison one in four   Prejudice and racism wrapped in class war      If Malcolm and Martin were alive today   How many lives of grief and pain they could relay   And how for these injustices can anyone repay?   And with what amount of sorrow can anyone convey?      How much suffering must be endured   before this social cancer can be cured?   Do color and class make one good or bad?   Doesn't prejudice and hate make humankind sad?