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My mother and my father taught me to look at the actual problem, not the face of it, not the veneer of it. so for me, i was never - i was impressed that it - racially, i was impressed, right, but now in america it's about economics, and it's been about economics, and honestly, everything's been about economics since i don't want to say the beginning of time, but it's been about economics for a long while.
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My Mother And My Father Taught Me

Lupe Fiasco
My mother and my father taught me to look at the actual problem, not the face of it, not the veneer of it. so for me, i was never - i was impressed that it - racially, i was impressed, right, but now in america it's about economics, and it's been about economics, and honestly, everything's been about economics since i don't want to say the beginning of time, but it's been about economics for a long while.
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