This song depicts the cry of the minority inner city youths in New York City.
Artical cries for them inside. It addresses the matter of police brutality as well as the more subtle but viscous racist system which allows vast numbers of NYPD officers and detectives to live outside of the communities where they work. It is clear that police officers who do not live in the community that they work are more likely to cause undue harm to the dwellers. This includes beatings, issuing unfair traffic stations, falsely arresting, or even shooting, when the officer can then retreat to his suburban home, "Beyond Babylon", Long Island.
Never having to look his victims, their mothers, or wife’s or children or neighbors in the eye.
It sends a terrible message, to black youths. It assaults their self esteem for the majority of people in authority in their communities to be white men who don't even live among them. Does it seem odd to anyone that almost all the firemen, teachers and police officers in
the hood, people in authority who are paid by our taxes, are white?
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