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Hector Pieterson

from Black Book Diaries by One Drop

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Hector Pieterson your death forever left a bloodstain
So we declare this a holiday
Soweto youth will rally in the streets so all will hear
With their fists high in the air

June 1976 though a normal day of tension
Grew into something tragic
South Africa’s uprising in the township of Soweto
Home of 2 Nobel Prize winners Tutu and Mandela
“Cause a language is taught, Afrikaans in school
A system of apartheid to control and rule
They knew a foreign language would make test scores hurt
To keep the black man from doing more than service work
I said

Hector Pieterson your death forever left a bloodstain
So we declare this a holiday
Soweto youth will rally in the streets so all will hear
With their fists high in the air

The students got together to protest in peace
At the corner of Moema where it meets Vilakazi
Armed with a voice singing the Sotho anthem
Against guns and ammunition and the violence you’d imagine
Police shot tear gas
Then them bullets would pass
Killing so many people
More than 500 would pass away
And you were only at the age of 13
The resistance is your memory

Hector Pieterson your death forever left a bloodstain
So we declare this a Holiday
Soweto youth will rally in the streets so all will hear
With their fists high in the air

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from Black Book Diaries, released June 26, 2012
written by James Alger
arranged by One Drop

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One Drop from San Diego, California embraces the spirit of classic Roots Reggae and Dub music with a calculated blend of R&B, Pop and Rock subtleties.

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