Us living as we do upside down

from Gil Scott Heron – Comment #1 Lyrics on Rap Genius

This starts the section of the poem quoted in Kanye West’s “Lost In The World”

Its importance as the song’s opening line is straightforward — the post-1968 political scene is topsy-turvy, with many privileged whites aspiring to become marginalized members of the underclass, while most blacks are now, for the first time, attempting to enter a desegregated middle-class society.

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