Ben Harpers song “Oppression” from his 1995 CD “Fight for Your Mind” is a strong song with true words which is telling all of us what is oppression and that we, no matter our color, age or race, are no longer going to run and hide from it, but we are going to fight it. We cannot stand still and watch as we let it engulf each of our entire world and then us by causing harm and pain to whomever besides it. Oppression comes after those who are to tired or to weak to fight it off because it dose not want to come after those who will fight it: It knows that trying to fight one who is strong and fearless of it will only end up in it losing and the world seeing how we are stronger than it will ever be. It dose not want to take the chance of all of us seeing that we concurred it and that every time we fight it off a bit more by abling ourselves to do something others, those who let oppression sit in there heads, say we couldn’t do, this is depleting oppression further and casting it back into the dark corners of where is came from.
What Ben Harper wants to say to us all is that we shouldn’t fear oppression; it should fear us because we are coming after it not with pitchforks and burning sticks, but with our words and our minds. If we try to fight it with violence and pain it is only making it stronger. No matter how much you believe that throwing your fist will make it listen you are wrong. If you don’t believe me than go ahead, throw your fists, shoot your brothers; this is only the oppression that lies within you. Fight with your mind because what seems like it will work: throwing fits in a violet protest with hundreds of others doing the same and the only thing those will hear is the news station saying, “Tonight an angry protest for freedom ended up in the detaining of hundreds” or working hard for the ability to hear the news say “today the senator of California stood before hundreds and spoke of the endless freedom which lies behind the walls of oppression.” Oppression is not in me and I will never let it: what about you?
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