Article 23

I wrote this back in 2009, August. I hope i didn't post it on this blog already.

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been thinking about it, been floating the idea around my head
so, what you think? i'm hoping to make your eyes blink
because if you have a number like i do, with letters NTI attached to it
you are more likely to be afflicted, severely affected.
i'm not sure about the exact history of it, and why they thought it
but i assure you they had good intentions and i'm not trying to create tensions
this is part of law, a federal law, which requires that the amount of Inuit participation
should be at a representative level, which at the current population of Inuit,
say 85%. 85% 85% 85% which is hard to reach at the present

Hey Paul K, you down with Article 23 (yeah you know it)
Hey Paul O, you down with Article 23 (yeah you know it)
Hey Jean Chretien, you down with Article 23 (yeah you know it)
Hey Leona, you down with Article 23 (yeah you know it)
are you down with article 23? do you think it was free? 
if i were having a job because of it, i'd go on a shopping spree
are you down with Article 23?

all them government employees who are inuit, thanks to this, you have a job
the government is obligated to have preferential treatment, which is supposed to alleviate
our livelihood, out economic status as individuals, do you circumvent?
have you read your departments Inuit employment plans? 
or have you been on the computer and googling the mating acts of japan?
and coincidentally enough (or is it?) on December 10 of 1948, United Nations
enacted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and guess what, it has are article 23
which states that everyone has the right to employment, and you have the right to enjoy it
everyone, thanks to article 23, has the right to form trade unions to protect his interests.

Hey Vladimir Putin, you down with Article 23 (yeah you know it)
Hey Barack O, you down with Article 23 (yeah you know it)
Hey Ban Ki-moon, you down with Article 23 (yeah you know it)
Hey Chavez, you down with Article 23 (yeah you know it)
are you down with article 23? do you think it was free? 
if i were having a job because of it, i'd go on a shopping spree
are you down with Article 23?