Racism Is Retro
Racism is retro
but it’s not like "retro cool"
it’s not like Bob Evans and his dangling cigarette
or a sectional couch by an Olympic lap pool
No it’s more like Reaganomics
than it is like ‘Hooked on Phonics’
it should not inspire nostalgic affection
like you have for vintage electronics
For when you discriminate
you cannot miscegenate
you must truly contemplate
the rise of the true police state
Racism is retro
but it’s not retro like Beta
it turns out kindness and VHS
have passed the test -- don’t you be a hata
Don’t you think the war is done
you don’t get to choose which side you’re on
it won’t matter what color skin you’ve got
it’s gonna come down to the haves and have nots
Gentrification versus organization
a degree in Fine Arts versus hard Knocks and street smarts
Baby Gap versus gatts, we’re goin’ to the mat
it’s time to get your war on
don’t you wish your ironic robot collection
could turn into a Voltron?
It’s hard to love your neighbor
when your neighbors are so rude
Can’t we send them back to where they came from?
Can we keep their tasty food?
So maybe racism is retro
but the new shit’s in effect, yo
I’d hang on to that bunker, Archie
cuz Mother Nature’s 'bout to do some repo
Just when you think the war is done
you don’t get to choose which side you’re on
the real enemy has finally come
we’re all the same under the burning sun
the burning sun
(fight the real enemy)
the burning sun
(fight the real enemy)
(Now it’s time to stop pitting indie-rock T-shirt babies in strollers
against the recreations of bass-humping motherfucking street rollers)
Let’s join hands
put down our guns
let’s all band together
we’re gonna build a bomb
we’re gonna build a bomb
to take out the motherfuckin’ sun