Ben Harpers song "Oppression" from his 1995 CD "Fight for Your Mind" is a strong song with true words which is telling all of us what is oppression and that we, no matter our color, age or race, are no longer going to run and hide from it, but we are going to fight it. We cannot stand still and watch as we let it engulf each of our entire world and then us by causing harm and pain to whomever besides it. Oppression comes after those who are to tired or to weak to fight it off because it dose not want to come after those who will fight it: It knows that trying to fight one who is strong and fearless of it will only end up in it losing and the world seeing how we are stronger than it will ever be. It dose not want to take the chance of all of us seeing that we concurred it and that every time we fight it off a bit more by abling ourselves to do something others, those who let oppression sit in there heads, say we couldn't do, this is depleting oppression further and casting it back into the dark corners of where is came from. .
Oppression is nothing but a sad curse, it is no more than a ghost in the wind that comes and haunts you only if you let it. It try's to concur us, trying to divide all of us whether we are black of white, man or woman, fat or thin. It is only because of those that fight oppression that a woman can fight in a war and that a man is no longer a slave because of his color. It seems as if oppression in everywhere and that even when things seem to be at there worst point it seems as if there it is: pushing, scratching and burning the problem to where even when you think it could get no worse it seems to. It seems that nothing can stop it from attacking, that it seems like the only thing that can stop it is the ultimate end of ourselves and if we let come to that then it becomes the victor. .
We must pity it; not fear it because it is not the big, bad monster that lives under the bed, but the tiny mouse caught in the lights way casting a shadow, which seems to look like the monster we all so fear.