People's Court Part I - Mutabaruka

Order, now my court is in session

will u please stand

first allow me to indroduce myself

my name is judge judge 1000 years

some people call me

'betta mus com'

i am from afrika

i com to try all u politicians

for sellin out black people.

in my court, only me talk

cause i am vex,

dis is de people’s court

what do you have here today

well your honour

we have defendants

senator sanky singh and

senator change mimind

also here is mr.

religious belief

but i think we shall deal with

the senators today,

at a later date we will deal with

mr.

religious belief.

alright, alright

politician singh and

politician change mimind

u are brought here

for tricking black people,

by promising dem

good livin every five years

u have been sellin out black

people to foreigners.

your honour

hush up a not finish yet

wat u want to do,

promise me to?

i see de rich gettin richer

an de poor dyin

your honour,

fundamentally,

if i may say something

at dis point in time…

shut up.

this is the people’s court and

a not allowing any

politrikin here

if u disturb me again i will

give you 1000 years

for contempt of court.

u are also charged for

chargin de people too much taxes

because of your mismanagement

spendin money

then taxing the people for it.

u keep borrowing money

from the i.m.f.

and the world bank

in the people’s name

continuing de oppression of black people

by the same colonialist

why u can’t learn

no so called third world country

has been able to break loose

from these money hogs

you have black people

in a vicious cycle.

if it wasn’t for me,

black people in this country

would still be worshippin

the statue of liberty.

well tell me how come u

change your mind now…

shut up.

what you trying to do?

confuse the court.

i am giving you both 1000 years

on the first account.

from 1938 until now

you have been dividing black people

your promisin de people

right back into slavery

now de only thing u have

been truthful about is your thing

about 'out of many one'

your honour,

that was taken from my uncle sam

yes, cause only one people

a clean de street

one people a eat out a garbage heap

one people to cut sugar cane

one people ina sun an rain

one people a toil

an one people a collect de coil

speakin of uncle sam

i shall also charge u for given

rise to crack and cocaine

in dis country

by killin off the ganja plant

that use to help to

balance our foreign exchange deficit

i am givin you 1000 years

for the crimes of anthony

girlie girlie godfather don

an mr.

crack stone

but your honour

your should be hanged

but i shall be lenient

and give you both 1000 years.

i have been noticing that

in your airports

only out going passengers

are caught with drugs

but neva a tourist,

yet we don’t grow cocaine here

but it still getting more and more common.

Singh & Mimind:

but the tourist business is

vital to our national economy

vital, vital to who

wid u all exclusive hotels

tourists will soon think

negril is a next island by itself

u claim that the poor

can’t teck no more

but you not givin them anything

a see more benz than lada

and hear that a car that

cost $ 20, 000 in Miami

cost $ 800, 000 here.

wat you do wid all that

extra money at customs

u keep talkin bout tourist harrasment,

jamaicans are harrassed daily in foreign

everyday dem talkin bout

jamaican posse

your honour,

as you can plainly see,

when i was in power

things was goin to get right,

i had all de white people

wid money on my side

all the brown people

was starting to feel like

dem was livin in miami

but what about de black people?

well a was just gettin

around to them

when a loss de elections your honor

that is no excuse your honour

before him,

black people was gettin very self sufficient

brown people was startin to acquire houses in miami

that is because dem was runnin away your honour

white people started to seh i and i and irie

your honour,

if it wasn’t for him and his black ideology

we would reach much further…

your honour,

im neva have poor people in mind,

that is why wi havin so much trouble now

your honour,

is him change, not me

your honour,

im have a party of gangs,

im sey suh imself.

shut up.

i see no difference between both of you.

u both following the same thing

that has been and still is

keepin down black people.

when u not in power your honour,

it is easy to say dis and that.

but when you have power

is a different sanky

you have to sing.

I am givin you both another 1000 years.

nun of you have the solution

to black people problem

a suggest you read

the philosphy and opinions

of marcus garvey.

study em carefully,

then i might just grant onu pardon

and another thing,

before onnu begin onnu sentence,

both of u visit the arcade

and see how poor women

run business from nothin.

let the domestic helpers

show u how to use $ 130

to feed a family of six for one week.

now take them away.