"[ Man ] Previously on Tanner '88." "The Post story says that sources have confirmed that the woman,Joanna Buckley... has been involved with Tanner since before he joined the race." "Party leaders reached this morning confirmed... that the liaison represents an untenable conflict of interest for both parties." "You acted recklessly... and you never for a moment considered the consequences for others." "Look, let's get married." "Why not?" "There's no reason not to now." "Just let me go lose my job first, okay?" "[ Helicopter Blades Whirring ] -[ Reporters Clamoring ]" "Okay, so it was a little juvenile, but, uh... that getaway was a real high point for me." "It also fed my grandiosity." "I mean, when you lift off, it feels like all your problems - in my case, the press - are just scattered beneath that prop wash." "And I realized I could get used to this really quickly." "I actually yelled at the pilot to take me to Camp David." "Of course, the Secret Service agents didn't find that too amusing." "I can still see him as president." "I completely can." "I don't know if you've seen the Draft Tanner website." "The graphics are a little lame... although maybe not to a layperson." "Anyway, I was talking to one of the founders... a graduate student of his, who's incredibly cute, by the way." "I don't know what he's doing in graduate school." "But he told me that everything is there for an independent run." "Committed backers, the meet-up capability, a campaign blog, flash mobs." "All the key pieces." "All we need is the candidate." "Has she gone mad?" "[ Tanner ] It's just fantastic." "So what you're talking about here is a fairly typical..." " acid-pickled, low-altitude lake, right?" " Typical?" "Well, low "alkanites," low pH, high levels of aluminum." "Then you've obviously got the usual associated diebacks of what, red spruce?" " Yeah, we see some of that." " Sure." "And your headwaters in the area are susceptible to acidification." " Because of the " " Sure, because the "alkanites" are what..." " Yeah, them." " twenty parts per million maybe?" " [ Molly Whispers ] Deke!" " Yeah, well, and then some." "So what do you think it means in terms of total applications of sodium?" "Well, it's hard to say." "Uh, it's a lot." "I know that." "A lot?" " Yeah." "So for Michigan, it's time for a change, wouldn't you say?" "Yeah, long overdue, if you ask me." " Thanks a lot, my friend." " Sure." "No problem." "Just a second." "Take a couple of pictures." " Oh." "[ Shutters Clicking ]" " [ Sighs ]" "Just like a Fellini film I saw one time." "God,you ever get tired of that view?" "Yeah, sometimes." "[ Man Rapping ] I can't believe it A Michigan ranger" "Is bored with life and wants some changes" "But he doesn't really know what's going on today" "The tin man is taking all of the pay" "But not mines because I bust rhymes" "It's not as simple as some assembly line" "Because they don't get paid or take no drug tests" "My dad is more or less on a permanent rest for a machine" "A man-made thing taking over thejobs" "That human beings once used to usejust to stay alive" "Yeah, only the strong survive" "But steel is tougher than skin" "Like oil is thicker than water" "So, Mr. Ranger, I think you oughta" "Keep workin'with the bear and cool out in the forest" "We cried out already but they ignored us" "They can hammer, cut, build and screw" "One hundred percent better than we used to do" "It all came with the turn of the decade" "A crucial move but the change was made" "So now we're poverty-stricken ill and sickened" "The bill collectors keep stickin'the bills" "I ain't ill, is how I feel" "Come to Detroit if you want the real deal of changes" "We need some changes We need some changes" "[ Robot ] I understand we have a special guest in the audience today... candidateJack Tanner, the man who wants to be president." "Which one of you is Jack Tanner?" "You'reJack Tanner, sir?" "Gee, you're a lot shorter than you look on television, sir." "Let me shake your hand." "It's nice to meet you, sir." "You know, I'm curious about one thing, Mr. Tanner." "Aren't you the man who told JesseJackson that you're in favor of drugs?" "Didn't you say that toJesseJackson in the debate, that you favor drugs?" "Didn't you?" "I don't favor drugs." "Certainly not." "I favor taking a look at legalizing drugs." "Are you sure that you don't want drugs to be sold to everybody at very cheap prices?" " What do you really think?" " I thought this was a singing robot." "Have you ever smoked pot yourself?" "Have you ever done cocaine?" "We robots don't do drugs." "But what about you?" "[ Andrea ] You did little tricks before!" "What about your pretty aide here with the funky earrings?" "I bet she uses drugs." "What about this guy with the glasses?" "I bet he uses drugs." "Come on!" "What's the real story?" "[ T.J. Sighs ] I don't know." "Things happen to this man, people." "He is constantly being overtaken by events." "And I gotta tell you, I think a lot of this stuff could be avoided." "We are talking the most basic advance work here." "I don't think that's too much to ask- a little thought about the photo ops... that could've prevented the candidate from being made a fool of and upstaged... by a mechanical robot." "Christ, he was talking to it like he was with Dukakis." "I wanna show a man who can relate to people, not machines." "I said I was sorry, Mrs. Cavanaugh." "Well, saying I'm sorry may make you feel better, Andrea... but it doesn't protect my candidate." " For Pete's sake, Mrs. Cavanaugh!" " Well, golly days, Miss Spinelli." "I guess everything must just be fine." "Sorry, my mistake!" "Excuse me!" "Excuse me!" " [ Sobbing ] - [ Emile ] Gee,you know." "That really takes me back." "I remember the first time you reduced me to tears." "Do you?" "Don't forget it." "Okay." "Detroit." "Talk to me, children." "Who's working on what?" "Stevie, how's the thing with the mothers?" " Well, we're on for Tuesday." "I'd give that as much time as it takes." "He'll be talking to the walking wounded." "All these families have lost children." "He can't just blow in there and out." "Okay, okay." "Clear the whole evening." "What else?" "We got the governor's reception at Trapper's Alley." "Barring no overrun by CBS taping, it'll be on as scheduled." " Gonna go to a press conference right after." " Good." "We've got two mults and a phone bank." "What we don't have is something to announce." "Sure, we do." "We got the cabinet." "Jack is going to announce the cabinet." "No, too early." "We don't even have commitments from four of them." "[ T.J.] Oh, great." " How about we just go with a partial list?" "We just bring out the heaviest guns we got." "Barbara Jordan." "Uh, what is it?" "Robert Redford, secretary of the interior." " You know Robert Redford?" " Ordinary Bob?" "Yeah, I know him." " Secretary Bob to you." " Wow!" " I have an idea." "For secretary of education let's appoint George Will." " Are you guys casting a movie?" " It's more like a television extravaganza." " As soon as he accepts, we abolish the post." "No, Will should be chief of protocol." "George knows his finger bowls." "Oh, I love it." "Make the offer." "And follow through with Art Buchwald as ambassador to France." "I wanna go at this with every angle we've got." "T.J.,you're not serious." "You bet I'm serious." "Why not?" "This is the citizens' cabinet." " Could I get some more coffee, please?" " It's for real." "It's imaginative." "If people think the choices are a little bit off-center, well, so much the better." " It shows fresh thinking." " Oh, come on." "Stevie, the whole point of this little exercise... is to get the focus off thejack and Joanna story." "The girlfriend factor is absolutely killing us." "And as long as we've got nothing new to say... we are stuck with all the character questions from that damn Seidelman... and all the other little baby alligators who keep showing up here." "[ Andrea ] Mrs. Cavanaugh." "Mrs. Cavanaugh.!" "Mrs. Cavanaugh.!" "[ Laughing ]" "Look!" "[ Man Rapping ] Another tin man shaking'your hands" "If you vote for him and meet his demands" "Promising everything but delivering nothing" "With campaign speeches and political buttons" " We need some changes - [ Alex ] Friendly faces." "Remember your history and everything." "[ Man ] You had a great record in congress." "This is a state that is very much representative of the country." "A lot of people think that we're just big auto plants, nothing more." "But, you know, we just did a recent study... and 91 of every 1 00 people who work in Michigan do not work for the big three." "Now, the big three auto companies are important, of course." "But 91 out of 1 00 work for someone else." "It's much more diversified and much more representative of the country." "And I think a candidate from Michigan, like you,Jack... has a much better chance than a lot of people think." "Deke, what are you doing up there?" "Hey, Mol, babe." " You're gonna love this." "Trust me." " Would you get down there?" "Now!" "You're doing terrific work on the platform." "And we think it's great that you're making it as broad-based as possible... so that we can get as many votes as we can... and so that we are not alienating people." "We're bringing people together and redefining the Democratic party." "We're gonna write it in a way that any good Democrat- progressive Democrat can win... whether it's JesseJackson orJack Tanner or Michael Dukakis... or any of the others." "We want the candidates' input." "We want it to be one all Democrats are proud of, especially Michigan Democrats." "Keep your skirt on, Mol." "You're gonna love this." " What am I going to love?" " This." "This." "It's a "thrill-cam." Like the Letterman show, right?" "Watch this." "Check this out." "Jack starts to make his speech, right?" "I let the camera out here on the guide wire." "Safety line, right?" "The camera swoops in on him like a hawk." "Get it?" "See?" "You can pull in and out for camera shots." " It's a helicopter shot in a mall." " I want you downstairs in three minutes." "Or you can thrill-cam your ass back to New York!" "Does fuckin' ABC have footage like this?" "Do they?" "I think not." "[ Tanner ] Ladies and gentlemen, I can't tell you how pleased we are... about the wonderful reception you've given us here today." "Just a few moments ago, my daughter Alex" " Where is Alex anyway?" " Alex." "Here she is." "Just a few moments ago... my daughter Alex mentioned to me how much of a lift it was to her spirits... to be back in Michigan." "And I must say I agree." "You know, as an army kid I had many homes." "But it all started for me right here." "The voters of Michigan have always been very good to me." "And I'm gonna return the favor by not giving any long speeches today." "[ Woman ] Yea.!" "[ Smattering Of Applause ]" "I just wanna say one thing - thank you." " You people are the best." " [ Applause ]" "How badly do you think your relationship with Miss Buckley has hurt the campaign?" " Uh, I don't think it's " " What is your relationship now, Congressman?" "Have you discussed strategy with Miss Buckley?" " No, no, not at all." " Oh, shit." "Jack!" "[ Tanner ] Honey,you know, we've got something important to talk about." "[ Alex ] I know." " You do?" "We haven't taken a walk together in a while." " Are you dropping out of the race?" " No, I wouldn't do that." "Not after everything we've been through." "But I can't hurtJoanna anymore." "I mean, what happened yesterday is gonna just happen over and over again." "It doesn't make any difference that she's left Dukakis, you know." "[ Sighs ] Honey, you know how we feel about one another, don't you?" " You're gonna marry her?" " Well, what do you think about that?" " I think that's wonderful." " You do?" "I think that's the most wonderful thing I've heard in a very long time." "Oh, Dad, I'm so happy for you." "Lexy, to tell you the truth, I'm a little surprised." "I thought you didn't like her very much." "She's terrific." "She's swell." "What I didn't like was the situation... everybody having to pretend that nothing was going on." "This is so amazing." "Do you know where you're gonna have the wedding yet?" " [ Chuckling ]" " How about Aunt El's house?" "I haven't even given it a thought." "I don't even know if she's gonna go for it." " Do you want me to ask her for you?" " [ Laughing ]" "This is so exciting." "[ Humming:" ""Exercise Your Right To Vote" ]" "Okay, kids." "We've gotta be on the road in two hours." "Detroit in two hours, so please be ready." "All your stuff together, in the car, ready to go." " Oh, sewing buttons." "That's nice." " Hey, Stevie." "What do you have for me?" "Big Jack, I'm glad you're here." "There's something I want you to see." "I don't have time for a critique, Barney." "Jack, I wouldn't bring it up if it wasn't important." "You gotta trust me." "Take a look at this." "This is what we got last night." "Basically it was the same on all three local stations." "Okay." "[ Baby Crying ] -[ Barney ] It's crying." "[ Stringer On TV] Okay, we got it." "Okay." " I remember it." " Uh, that's enough of that." " [ Crying ]" "[ Stringer] Great." "See?" "You see the problem, right?" "This is not state-of-the-art baby kissing." "You know about this,Joanna." "Remember?" "The old Dukester, he had the same problem." "Come on, I thought one of them was gonna piss on me." "Jack, the modern diaper doesn't leak." "I mean, that's not a problem." "What is a problem is that we are conceding all that baby photo-op action toJesse." "Editors love this stuff." "News directors love it and they use it." "And we have gotta give it to them." "Right,Joanna?" "He's just not comfortable with it, Barney." "Well, I think we can solve that little problem." "I think we can work it out." "Jack, I would like you to meet Baby Heather." "[ Giggling ] I'm happy." "Play with me." "[ Barney ] What?" "Ice cream?" "[ Giggling ]" "I love you." "[ Laughing ]" "[ Chattering, Indistinct ]" "From the Dukakis van and now you're on the Tanner bus." "[ Stringer ] It's getting there." "[ Woman ] Terrence Marlowe." "How you doing?" " What a grumpy bunch today." " Hey, cutie." "When we gonna have a road trip?" "Andrea." "Andrea" " Yeah, Mrs. Cavanaugh." " Donation pledges." "Log 'em." "Send the couriers to pick up the checks." "I want them deposited in the media disbursements account... before the bank closes... which will give you about two hours, okay?" "Yes, ma'am." "Kerry, Susan - Excuse me, Mrs. Cavanaugh." "Drop what you're doing." "I need you back here with your cars, pronto." " Honest to God?" " Reagan was probably" " Hi." "How are you?" " Reagan was probably responsible for the specific case because of the " " Sorry, David." " What's the problem?" "Uh, we're all filled up." "What are you talking about, Stringer?" "You're not even half filled." "Uh, we got a lot of equipment on there." "Come in, Deke." "Aw, what the fuck is this?" "You gotta be kidding me." " I'm sure you can rent a car." " Is T.J. on here?" "I wanna talk to T.J." "Look, I'd like to help you out, David, but we gotta get going." "We're in a hurry." "You understand." " See you in Motown, David." " What's Deke doing on here?" "I thought he was fired." "You asshole!" "Sophomoric." "Slap-on-the-hand bullshit." "T.J.!" "Where is she?" "Is she in there?" "[ Woman ] Who?" "[ Laughing ]" "T.J., what the hell is going on here?" "Stringer doesn't let me get on the bus?" "Listen, David, I would really like to help you with your little travel problems... but I'm kind of busy right now." "Andrea, would you show Mr. Seidelman the door?" "I thought you were a little classier than that." "David, you don't even know the meaning of class." "So this is your bullshit way of punishing " "You are really in the doghouse ever since you did that story... on Congressman Tanner and his lover." " Andrea, please." " Tamara, find Larry." "Great." "Listen." "I need these checks picked up by 2:00." "Do you understand?" "They cannot be here any later than 2:00." "Thank you." "Uh, Mr. Seidelman, one second." "Okay, is that a problem?" "Great, thanks a lot." "Bye-bye." " You know, Andrea, I've been noticing " " Please don't say it." " Don't say what?" " Please do not tell me how much I have grown in this job." "I have been patronized from New Hampshire to California and back again... and I have really had enough of it, thank you very much." "I know I've changed, Mr. Seidelman." "Would you like to know how I've changed?" " I can't imagine." " I'm no longer a nice person." "Great, huh?" "[ Rapping ] I can't believe it, all the dangers" "It's up to us to make the changes" "And since I bust rhymes what I wanna say" "Is I don't feel that there's a better way" "To spread the word to all those young ears" "The city streets are filled with fears" "Drugs and money girls and pimps" "And churchgoers are considered as wimps" "Why" " [ Sirens Wailing ]" " Go straight ahead up here." "[ Continues ]" "Jesus." "You really grew up here, Stevie?" "It wasn't so bad then." "Believe it or not, people were lining up to get into the projects." "There was no graffiti, nowhere near the crime." "Detroit was different then." "There was still some hope in the streets." "We need some changes" "We need some changes" "How did we get from there to here?" "How did it get so much worse after all that was done?" "I'm singing so you'll know" "The little kids are blowing each other away" "And the problem's still growing We need some changes" "Peace We outta here" "[ Cheering, Applause ]" "[ Man On P.A.] Vince, thank you very much, Vince." "Exercise your right to vote." "Okay, we got a brother who's gonna bring a positive message for you right now." "He's gonna steel your mind a little bit." "How about making him feel welcome?" "His name is Earl." "How about it for Mr. Earl Henderson, ladies and gentlemen?" "I'd like to recite a poem for you." "It's dedicated to Melody Rucker and Clementine Barfield." "It's called "So Sad."" "[ Siren Wailing ]" ""It's so sad when they die so young..." ""in a city where no one cares." ""Too many funerals and too many guns..." ""too many swords and not enough plowshares." ""I've never held ill feelings to anyone..." ""till I found my child was dead..." ""till I found my child was dead..." ""till I found my child was dead." ""And I saw her, I swear, right before the shots..." ""before the faces and friends and pallbearers and shot." ""Their music was a melody ofbullets firing and flesh tearing..." ""and breathing stopping and lives ending." ""And I saw her, I swear, right before the shots." ""And how could she know that we've lost children and souls..." ""while we've lost Detroit, while we've lost D.C., while Los Angeles bleeds?" ""Why should it take hundreds of young lives to make people see..." ""that only in death does there seem to be equal opportunity?" ""But I saw her, I swear, right before the shots." ""On the porch where my baby stood, bloodstains are all I've got." ""I've never held ill feelings to anyone till I found my child was dead..." ""till I found my child was dead... till I found my child was dead. "" "Mrs. Clementine Barfield." "Clementine Barfield, ladies and gentlemen." "She's our leader." "We definitely appreciate the things she's done for the city of Detroit... and the recognition she is so rightfully receiving today." "Center stage, my dear." "Uh, for all of you that are here, we thank you." "There are other parents here who have lost children,just as I have." "We have lost valuable dreams... hopes and futures when we bury our children." "And we're gonna start focusing on some of those issues... 'cause we have issues to present to Tanner." "If we in America wanted to project to the rest of the world... that we were a strong country..." "Washington D.C. should be that model." "Instead, two blocks down the street from the White House... there is poverty, devastation... drugs, high suicide rate." "We need some changes." "[ Applause ]" "And when we go to cast our votes... that's when we can make changes." " [ Man ] Tell it, sister." " Mr. Tanner, we want some changes." "[ Woman ] All right.!" "Yeah.!" "[ Cheers, Applause ]" "[ All Chattering Simultaneously ]" "Jack, I have something that I'd like to give you." "Now, this is something that you can give to America that we're asking for." "Hope." "What the brother is saying... you cannot go to a young person and say..." ""Don't sell dope and make all that money." "Go to school and get a four-year education. "" "You go to school and get a four-year education and there's nojob." "He has no hope." "Now, myself, I'm voting with JesseJackson, because that man's offering hope to America." "He's telling the young people" " He's standing up and saying, "You do have a choice."" "Like this man's saying. "I came from hell, and I made it, and you can make it."" "[ Tanner ] The only way the American people are gonna know... that we're losing a generation of young people to the streets... is for you today to take advantage of our presence and these cameras... and tell those people what's going on." "So I'm here to ask you about your lives and your experiences." "If you were president, what would you do to curtail the drug traffic... and all the higher-echelon of the drug cartel." " How do you feel about legalizing drugs?" "[ Man ] No,you can't do that." " I gotta speak to that." " [ Woman ] You can't have that at all." " If we can't beat it, we gotta join it." " I tell you what." "You can't teach a whole generation ofkids this is illegal, immoral, it's destroying you... and then the next thing you do, you go and legalize it." "You can talk about macroeconomics and the effects it'll have here." "The drug problem's here." "The reason there's no war on drugs being fought" "Drugs are there, but we haven't made anything competitive to drug traffic." "Yo, if I'm gonna be 1 3 years old and roll and be a worker... and make $300 a week, I'm gonna do that." "But what we have to do is show some competition." "You can't go up to a cat rollin' and say, "Yo, don't roll. "" ""Yo, be for real." "I'm making bank."" "You gotta go to them and offer them an alternative." "And the only alternative that's realistic is education." "When you even bring up something like legalization, that's giving up." "Like the brother said, there's been no real fight." "War on drugs?" "What war on drugs?" "Congress?" "It's a joke." "I mean, we should use the army." "We're constantly tying the hands of the congressmen... and the people in our legislative bodies who can officially declare a war on drugs." " This ain't no war." " I can say we can get the army out." "I can" "We can make those statements." "I can say that we'll never legalize drugs... and that we can have soldiers marching up and down the streets." "And I can go after these things." "But that's not what I'm here today to do." "I'm here to find out firsthand what's going on." "Let me tell you what you should do." "I'll tell you point-blank what you should do." "You should work on the supply side." "We gonna take care of the demand side." "Because while we're both tryin' to " "I'm not gonna go out marching'." "I'm a veteran." "I'm not gonna go out marching' and patrol borders." "That's not realistic." "Excuse me." "But what I can do is go back to the communities... and speak in the language those kids can understand." "Communicate to them that there are options and delineate them realistically." "You don't say, "Yo, man." "Have some hope, man." "We gonna do something for you."" "Say, "Yo, man." "My mother's on dope." "My sister's rollin'."" "It's just like that song by Ice-T, you know." ""My homeboy got jacked." "My sister's on crack." "My brother don't work 'cause his arms show tracks."" "What you do is work on the supply side." "You don't get into trade agreements with countries that you know - like Bolivia or Peru - that are importing this." " Now we work on the demand side." " [ Applause ]" "We keep hearing- We keep hearing that somehow... our federal government is connected to the drug trade... that the Contra-Iran scandal was just a cover-up for a Contra-cocaine scandal." "And we're also hearing that somehow... the vice president, with his CIA connections... was very, very knowledgeably and purposely involved... in that Contra-cocaine scandal." "Senator Kerry is slowly bringing that material out into the public... so that people are hearing that there was most likely that connection." "And one of the things that I think you can do... is to clean house in the government from top to bottom... and get rid of these elected... administration cocaine pushers... and to stop Bush from getting in there." "Because if he gets in there, a lot of those same things... that are touching every one of us in this city and every city... it's just gonna keep on happening." "And we need a man like you, or a man likeJesse or a man like the Duke " "When we have a government that's in place now that puts people in the supreme courts... that knocks down civil rights that's been going for years, that takes away our hope." "No matter how hard we can work in the community... our children, so we can say, "Go to school and get an education"... when they see their jobs taken away from them... the barriers that will fight racism are knocked away." "I'm not accusing the president of being a racist." " But his" " I'm not accusing." " [ Man ] You mean the candidate." "I'm talking about President Reagan." "I'm not accusing the president of being a racist." "But he is not for civil rights." "So that gives people an impression in their minds that's very important." " You're being very generous." " I'm being respectful." "Because I have not had an opportunity to talk to the man." "He has not come to the community like you... likeJesseJackson has done and has done before he ran for president." "Let's get back to the issue of our children, okay?" "That's what it's all about." "Saving our children." "You know, we can sit around here, we can blame everything and everybody." "We were talking about changes." "But actually the changes must begin with us." "We're adults." "We've got to start with the White House all the way down to my house." "Your neighbor." "It's time for us to set the example." "I heard somebody say, "We need role models."" "We're supposed to be the role models, you understand?" "Mothers and fathers." "We're supposed to be role models." "Teachers and counselors." "We're supposed to be role models." "Let's talk about what can we do." "Let's start taking an interest in our children." "Let's start with some commitment on our behalf." "[ Man ] We've got a cocaine problem." "We ain't got no other problem." "Cocaine is what's killing us." "And that's for real." "Ain't no drug like cocaine." "All the programs and your morals is not right." "You can sit here and talk from doomsday." " Alcohol kills too." " Cocaine's killed a lot of boys." "[ All Chattering ]" "They need something that gonna help them morally.!" "Not hot dogs and cakes and candies!" "That's nothing for our future." "If your morals are not uplifting, you can't help us, Reagan can't help us... the pope of Rome can't help us, and we can't help ourselves." "Shut up!" "We're talking about saving all the kids." "And so this is what it's all about." "We can't put the blame." "We've got to stop putting the blame." "It's time to come be united." "We have seen what it's done to us being divided." "Divided we fall." "All the blood that's runnin' in the street." "So now we must come together." "We have to come together." "This is the first visible movement in the United States... since the civil rights movement." "It's been 20 years since people have moved to the forefront... and took a stand against what's going on wrong in this country." "SOSAD has laid the foundation for that movement." "Our children that have died on the streets of Detroit... laid the foundation for that movement." "I lost my 1 6-year-old son." "Vera lost her 1 6-year-old daughter." "The past two years, we lost 77 children ages 1 6 and younger... shot to death in the city of Detroit." "That is not to mention the children that committed suicide... or children that died by other means." "Seventy-seven children in this city were shot to death." "[ Man Rapping ] Too many niggas got triggers Too many triggers got guns" "Too many triggers held fingers and hands" "Too many superniggas didn't bother to understand" "Too many kids was rollin'5 1 s" "So the fingers pull triggers and mothers just lost sons" "And daughters cried on funeral pyres" "Poets read poems then they ran for their lives" "They blamed the whole game on rap music and slang" "Then they sat on their behinds Didn't do a damn thing" "But talk about the days when they marched with King" "Towed little kids from the back oflimousines" "Now, we're doing what we can but you don't stop trying" "The kid walked home and brutally died" "Brutally died, b-b-brutally died Brutally died" "Derick Barfield brutally died Brutally died" "Melody Rucker brutally died Brutally died" "Fisher Wills brutally died B-Brutally died" "Frank Scott brutally died Brutally died" "ChesterJackson brutally died Brutally died 1 80 kids brutally died B-B-Brutally died" "Brutally died, brutally died Brutally died" "B-B-Brutally died, brutally died Brutally died, brutally died" "It's so sad when they die so young" "In a city where no one cares" "There are too many funerals and too many guns" "Too many swords and not enough plowshares" "I've never held ill feelings to anyone" "Till I found my child was dead" "Till I found my child was dead" "Till I found my child was dead" "[ Sirens Wailing ]"