Wise here refers to the controversial idea, popular among 5%ers, that the Greeks, commonly credited as the first to invent and/or discover mathematics and philosophy, actually stole those sciences from “black” ancient Egypyt

Wise now jumps to criticisms of his own race, first dealing with black men who abandon their children. He likely means “hitters” in the colloquial, sexual sense here, though the other kind of hitting is a very real problem as well

While it is sadly often used as a political football and talked about in racist ways, the issue of black children growing up in a household without a father is very real – as of 2004, over 50 percent of African American children lived in mother-only households

Wise here refers to the popular – though untrue – idea that AIDS was man-made. Usually, these theories involve it being created by the U.S. government and subsequently covered up

Activist David Gilbert wrote a must-read essay on this topic, which explains both why the theory has gained such currency – there is, after all, a very real history of the government introducing disease into communities of color – but also exactly WHY this theory is untrue, and why it is so dangerous to believe it

The phrase “new world order” has been used by conspiracy theorists since the 1970’s to refer to an impending one-world government

It had a surge in popularity when then-President George H.W. Bush used it in a 1990 speech, which the group samples on the intro to this album

[This song] talked about the fear of a Black planet, but it already is a Black planet. Everything comes from Africa. White supremacy tries to prove otherwise by trying to devalue that truth. Everything comes from Black.

– Chuck D

Chandler is an NBA center with the Knicks as of this writing

We all know how much Wayne loves sports

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUUzCSo97VU&feature=kp

The Bloods gang started heavily infiltrating the NYC prison system in the early to mid 1990’s

As in Uncle Sam, perhaps the ultimate cracker personification: