{"id":1376,"date":"2017-09-11T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media-archive.blackartinamerica.com\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2017-09-29T13:08:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T13:08:51","slug":"nick-cannon-stand-for-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthexhibitions.org\/media-archive\/?p=1376","title":{"rendered":"Nick Cannon &#8211; Stand For What"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNickCannon%2Fvideos%2F1866758860008489%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stand For what?!<br \/>\nYou want me to stand for a song that continues to remind me of all the harms that have done me wrong?<br \/>\nStand for what?!<br \/>\nFor your Army that none of our sons truly belong<br \/>\nStand for what?<br \/>\nThe 100 years it took them to convince Congress to become the anthem after 40 failed attempts<br \/>\nStand for what?<br \/>\nYour forefathers who really just Pimps.<br \/>\nStand for What?<br \/>\nA song about War, not freedom<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s how you want to lead them<br \/>\nBrainwash your people? that&#8217;s how you want to treat em<br \/>\nSlavemasters whips to Cops night sticks, that&#8217;s how you continue to beat em.<br \/>\nStand for what<br \/>\nthe beginning of Slavery in 1619<br \/>\nOr the end of those Black Marines of 1814<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s really what the lyrics are about<br \/>\nThey may have taken the word slave out<br \/>\nbut they forget to remove the slave connotations from their brains and they mouth The mentality to make America Greater than your imagination is how you pout<br \/>\nHating because we burned down their White House<br \/>\nGave proof through the night, that its light out<br \/>\nFor the old elitist white man thinking<br \/>\nDrunk off they ass with power at baseball games singing and drinking<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Man stand for what?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stand for something or fall for dumb shit!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stand for what<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To salute the Red White and Blue, on a Flag where my Colors not reflected<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stand for what<br \/>\nTo uphold laws that were embedded to have my community negatively affected<br \/>\nStand for what<br \/>\nYour racist systemic melodies of mind manipulating rhetoric?<br \/>\nDid you know the government pays Sports organizations for plays, to make people more patriotic<br \/>\nThis MK Ultra Soul control needs to stop it<br \/>\nI can still love my country and hate that fucked up song about rockets, and bombs bursting air<br \/>\nReminds me of Charlottesville&#8217;s vicious glares<br \/>\nAnd police shootings with no care like the dash cameras wasn&#8217;t there.<br \/>\nStand for what<br \/>\nMonuments and statues of old slave masters<br \/>\nConstant reminders of our nations disasters<br \/>\nThe Heros in Houston, the Doctors, the Poets and the Pastors.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s who I want to shape our greatness after<br \/>\nI honor and respect our men and women of service<br \/>\nBut we&#8217;ve been taught to idolize wars without purpose<br \/>\nThe majority of our Militaries casualties are minority soldiers<br \/>\nSo let&#8217;s make statues for those warriors because they truly deserve it<br \/>\nMt Rushmore was built by the Ku Klux Klan, so why the fuck should I have respect for those men<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Damn, This is not my country and it&#8217;s not yours either.<br \/>\nGo back to Africa? I wish we never had to leave it<br \/>\nBut the entire World is our neighborhood<br \/>\nSo why do we perceive certain blocks to be bad and other blocks to be good?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Instead of glorifying the past we gotta focus on the future<br \/>\nDick Gregory warned me if U speak up They probably gonna shoot ya!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But I shout for his eternal voice along with Martin, Malcolm and Marcus Garvey and<br \/>\nmarch wholeheartedly for their legacy<br \/>\nBecause I&#8217;ll say it loud as you can see<br \/>\nFuck Francis Scott Key and Robert E. Lee<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t represent me and neither do either of these hypocritical political parties<br \/>\nI am a native to the cosmic and Universal God Energy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Even though the constitution really doesn&#8217;t apply to me<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll try to exercise my freedom of speech<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So you can tell them you heard it from me.<br \/>\nYeah I said it<br \/>\nBrutality, Historic Fallacies and<br \/>\nAll war is wrong and so is that fucking song!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s Been way too long!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s time to make a change and acknowledge that your home of the brave was built on the back of a Slave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So bowing down to a true King<br \/>\nIs the only way to let freedom ring<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stand for what?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I ain&#8217;t standing For Shit&#8230; except Kaepernick!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/spokensundays?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=1866758860008489\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\"><span class=\"_5afx\"><span class=\"_58cl _5afz\" aria-label=\"hashtag\">#<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">SpokenSundays<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/standforwhat?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=1866758860008489\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\"><span class=\"_5afx\"><span class=\"_58cl _5afz\" aria-label=\"hashtag\">#<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">StandForWhat<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/poetry?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=1866758860008489\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\"><span class=\"_5afx\"><span class=\"_58cl _5afz\" aria-label=\"hashtag\">#<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">poetry<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"https:\/\/earthexhibitions.org\/media-archive\/?p=1376\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-reddit\"><div class=\"reddit_button\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/static\/button\/button1.html?newwindow=true&width=120&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fearthexhibitions.org%2Fmedia-archive%2F%3Fp%3D1376&amp;title=Nick%20Cannon%20-%20Stand%20For%20What\" height=\"22\" width=\"120\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/earthexhibitions.org\/media-archive\/?p=1376\" data-text=\"Nick Cannon - Stand For What\" data-via=\"baiaonline\" >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a class=\"tumblr-share-button\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/share\" data-title=\"Nick Cannon - Stand For What\" data-content=\"https:\/\/earthexhibitions.org\/media-archive\/?p=1376\" title=\"Share on Tumblr\"data-posttype=\"link\">Share on Tumblr<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><div class=\"linkedin_button\"><script type=\"in\/share\" data-url=\"https:\/\/earthexhibitions.org\/media-archive\/?p=1376\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><div class=\"pinterest_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fearthexhibitions.org%2Fmedia-archive%2F%3Fp%3D1376&#038;media=https%3A%2F%2Fi0.wp.com%2Fearthexhibitions.org%2Fmedia-archive%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F09%2F092417-music-nick-cannon-1.jpg%3Ffit%3D1200%252C600%26ssl%3D1&#038;description=Nick%20Cannon%20-%20Stand%20For%20What\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/pidgets\/pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png?w=750\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stand For what?! 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