No Tomorrow For The poor by Barry Finn Tune: Virginia Lags, Traditional

Inside the ghettos dwells the greatest of crimes,
Where kids with no hope are serving their time,
Where they're shocked into feeling that life has no price.
They live and they die no tomorrow.

With no higher learning, no place they can turn,
They see daily the wealth from crime they can earn.
They're under the gun every time that they turn,
And we ask why they have no values.

Their language is foreign., their culture is strange.
There's slight chance for survival outside of a gang.
To get life from drugs beats the pain of no change.
There's no light at the end of their tunnel.

There's abuse of all kinds that runs rampant with rage,
And the cycle runs deeper with each passing age
Until "Lock them away" is all we can say.
They've been locked away all of their young lives.

We'll draw cheap labor from them that'll slave,
And watch while we help the rest into the grave,
Keep them from good health, good schools, and good wage,
And hope that there isn't a backlash.

So now let us finish and shake hands with our fate,
And don't be surprised when you're a victim of hate.
What they've been robbed of, to you they'll relate.
You'll be hunted as prey by your victim.

Copyright, Barry Finn 1997

I thought I'd toss this out here, seeing as this discussion is so close to home for me, it was my envionment until adutlhood. 40 years back the only difference was the lack of the term "Gangsta", we had gangs & gangsters, we had no hope & to this day I am positive that there's a political purpose for keeping a percentage of the population under thumb. Be it a cheap labor pool to draw from to a group that can be manipulated or used to be pitted against another group or to have control over a gene pool to give a goverment agency a reason for being or just a reason to give another population fabricated jobs controling the social rejects. Am I way off base? I can't for the life of me figure out way a goverment would want to be a world leader in infant mortality, or have it's majority of people under educated & unhealthy when it's within their means to change this. How many of you out there who had a decent education & came from a healthy eviorment still know the people you grew up with & can say most are doing ok. The kids you're talking about here, if they make it to my age (47), may look around them as I do & find that most of those I knew are dead the few alive are long time cons, & most of the rest that might have survived have been struggling to keep their heads above water since day one. The only other difference I see between my day & today is that these kids know right off what their chances are, they have every right in the world to be mad, they've never known what rights are, they've lived with wrongs for so long. Should society continue to corral or enslave them because they offend us with their lack morals or maybe society should start to offer an education which might be the fist sight of light they've ever known. 'm am not sorry for going on like this , I'm just sorry that this goes on. Barry

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