Martin Luther King, he had a vision - and that’s a fact
He died so we could see that was his mission - so don’t look back
There is no division, don’t you understand?
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We’re the children of our father,
if you’re looking back Obama
We’re black and white America
In 1963 my father married - a black woman
And when they walked the streets
they were in danger - look what you’ve done
But they just kept on walking forward hand in hand
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We’re the children of our father,
if you’re looking back Obama
We’re black and white America
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We’re the children of our father,
if you’re looking back Obama
We’re black and white America
We’ve waited so long
We’ve waited so long
Black and white America
There is no division, don’t you understand?
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We’re the children of our father,
if you’re looking back Obama
We’re black and white America
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We’re the children of our father,
if you’re looking back Obama
We’re black and white America
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We’re the children of our father,
if you’re looking back Obama
We’re black and white America
Black and white America
Gonna keep a-moving forward
He died so we could see that was his mission - so don’t look back
There is no division, don’t you understand?
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We’re the children of our father,
if you’re looking back Obama
We’re black and white America
In 1963 my father married - a black woman
And when they walked the streets
they were in danger - look what you’ve done
But they just kept on walking forward hand in hand
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We’re the children of our father,
if you’re looking back Obama
We’re black and white America
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We’re the children of our father,
if you’re looking back Obama
We’re black and white America
We’ve waited so long
We’ve waited so long
Black and white America
There is no division, don’t you understand?
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We’re the children of our father,
if you’re looking back Obama
We’re black and white America
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We’re the children of our father,
if you’re looking back Obama
We’re black and white America
The future looks as though it has come around
And maybe we have finally found our common ground
We’re the children of our father,
if you’re looking back Obama
We’re black and white America
Black and white America
Gonna keep a-moving forward
inviata da Bartleby - 22/9/2011 - 08:33
Errata corrige nella traduzione dell'intervista a Gil Scott-Heron citata nell'introduzione...
Il padre di Kravitz era bianco (Seymour "Sy" Kravitz, importante produttore televisivo e musicale) e la madre nera (Roxie Roker, attrice piuttosto nota perchè prese parte alla serie tv "The Jeffersons" dove interpretava Helen Willis che - non sarà un caso - era sposata ad un bianco).
Il padre di Kravitz era bianco (Seymour "Sy" Kravitz, importante produttore televisivo e musicale) e la madre nera (Roxie Roker, attrice piuttosto nota perchè prese parte alla serie tv "The Jeffersons" dove interpretava Helen Willis che - non sarà un caso - era sposata ad un bianco).
Bartleby - 22/9/2011 - 10:50
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Album “Black and White America”
Peccato solo per la sviolinata al presidente Obama il quale – ricordo a quanti lo avessero dimenticato – è un (Ig)Nobel per la Pace permanentemente in guerra e che soltanto ieri ha ancora una volta, come tutti i suoi predecessori, messo una pietra tombale sul riconoscimento internazionale di una patria per i palestinesi.
Forse Kravitz si è lasciato andare alla leccata di culo perché anche lui e figlio di una coppia mista ma - anche se, a parer mio, non ci sono afro-americani migliori di coloro che sono nati in America da relazioni fra bianchi e neri - vorrei ricordargli il pensiero di un altro musicista afro-americano, purtroppo recentemente scomparso, Gil Scott-Heron (uno che mi è sempre parso ben più onesto di Kravitz e molto meno impelagato di lui nello show bussiness) che in una recente intervista a Silvia Boschero di Moby Dick Radio2 a proposito di Obama ha dichiarato: