Analysis Of Mystery Of Iniquity By Laurillie Hill

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Carlos Gale

Dr. DuBose

English 102

November 14, 2017

“Do we expect the system made for the elect, To possibly judge correct? Properly serve and protect?” (Line 3) Lauryn Noelle Hill, American singer, record producer, rapper, actress, and songwriter, is widely known for breaking several sales records. Especially for her most common and famous hit, nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Rap Solo Performance, “Mystery of Iniquity.” Through this song, it is luminous to see that Ms. Hill is “awoke.” She realizes problems and situations in the world that many others may unintentionally look over. She includes the raw truth criticizing the legal justice system along with all of the humanity. With it written in 2002, this song addresses
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Within this situation, it is necessary to say African Americans are in the state of being uncared. According to Hill in Line 3.15, she states that “Expert witness (the paid authority)/ Made a priority to deceive the majority, Of disinterested peers, Dodging duty for years, Hating the process, Waiting to be returning to the careers.” In other words, when they are on trial in the courtroom, the jury has no care in the world for them because it is like they don’t want to be there in the first place. Nothing is taking into consideration. It seems as if the jury just wants to go home and get this whole process over with, forgetting there is an entire life at …show more content…
There is an abundant number of situations in which a decision is choosing to be under an unfair ruling, or all of the effort was placed into one activity and not thoroughly thought out. Hill shows her level of frustration through Line 3.30, stating “Every word they speak it turns them out outwardly white/ Internally they absent of light.” Hill is showing the listener that the justice system is basically in the hands of the “white man.” If you are a person of color, it’s like your views, opinions, and circumstances don’t even matter. These so-called “rich white people” will spin a web of lies that blacks slowly become buried in until there’s no room for them to move. African Americans are dealing with life as if they are just a body with no type of souls or feelings to them, which indeed is not the

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