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And never the twain
shall meet! That's the message
that's coming across, To the policeman, on his
beat!
Not necessarily
everywhere, Not yet at any rate, But in places like
Brixton and Liverpool,
And neighbourhoods like 'Toxteth Eight'. Community policing is
the answer, they thought, To paper over the
cracks, Of a gradually
deteriorating relationship, Between the police and
the blacks. So they stopped to chat
and patted heads, And thought
they'd be lauded to the skies! But it wasn't as
friends, they were regarded by some, More as pigs, who were
acting as spies! Sussing out the big men,
the leaders and all, Who represented emergent
black power. Who'd be the targets, to
be singled out, If community relations
turned sour! There's no doubt the
police have an unenviable job, For they're standing
betwixt and between, And they've got to
maintain the law of the land, And to do it they've got
to be seen! But it's not easy to
smile and show all your teeth, When you're battling
through thin and through thick. Particularly when half
of them have just flown away, By courtesy of half a
house brick! When your mate has been
kicked, in a private part, Or clipped over the side
of the head, You sometimes
forget you're restoring the peace, Like the Chief
Superintendent said! There's no doubt
policemen are on the front line, Defending
nonsensical policy which, Can't reconcile a
coloured population, On the wrong side of the
political pitch! And your dad's been on
the dole for a decade, And what jobs there are,
are not given to you, Do you wonder that
tempers are frayed? It's not the symptoms
that count, but the cause, And that's what you've
got to treat. Give those lasses and
lads a future in life, And get them away from
the street.
They're
human beings, like you and me,
With
dreams, aspirations and ambition,
And
unless you carefully consider their plight,
You
invite anarchy, resentment, sedition!
So
don't blame the police, they're human too,
Some
I place at the top of the tree.
The
real problem that has to be overcome,
Is
a racial philosophy!
By Ins Piration. P.S. 'sussing out' - English slang for determining, or finding out.
Author: Trevor Durbidge Copyright © 2001 [TJD]. All rights reserved. Revised: October 30, 2007 .
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