Blakely & The Soul Mates "This Separation" Live Session

Alexandra Blakely with The Soul Mates record a live session in Xalapa, Veracruz from her debut album RESET.

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Director: Carla Azcoitia.
Photography Director: Pedro Arcos.
Camera Operators: Hector Nachón, Andrés Alafita Cabrera and Carla Azcoitia.
Lighting: Leonardo de Rodas
Recording Engineer: Randy Leal
Mixing: Jerónimo González

LYRICS:
sometimes i think my country should be
on comedy central working for free
and they wonder why i don't salute the lady liberty?
maybe if we're white or colonized we'd fall for imagery
like that - but that's all it is, false promises -
pretty pictures published to indoctrinate our kids

That's what i said, I'd never heard of "white privilege"

And I claimed to be for unity,
while blindlessly committing oppressive acts through opportunity --
offered to you and me --through the color of our skin --
no longer racist? -- check the neighborhood we're in --
lines of segregation thicker than they've ever been --
of course we don't see race we're surrounded by our kin.
And if we've got some color in our white schools then-
that's our vindication for our integration.

CHORUS:
They say I'm angry. Hell yes I am
if a nation attacked my family
I know I'd sure protect them
I'd arm myself and self defend
What would you do? If it was you
That's what we've done- this separation

So I denied it straight up - come on you understand ,
Its hard to be proven not egalitarian.
To admit I was wrong, that I'd done it all along,
And i know i'm not alone, cause we're all that strong,
BUT-we've been tricked by the system
==Intricate, Intelligent, inmoral -- belligerent
==thinkn that we've chosen our lives moral and diligente
==colorblindness when it's actually divergent...

EXCERPT FROM A TIM WISE DISCOURSE