Social Studies: Redemption Songs

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. Until there no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation. Until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes, me say war.…

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Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war.

Until there no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation. Until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes, me say war.

Until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race…

Dis a war

—Bob Marley, 1976

The past few days have proven to be a turbulent time for white people across America. As for the black people who continually experience chaos, lawlessness and violence at the hands of people invading their communities, this is called “life”.

If you doubt the veracity of that statement, let’s kick off Black Music Month by examining what some of our most heralded social scientists have previously said about this all-American phenomenon of racial injustice:

Fuck the police comin’ straight from the undergroundA young nigga got it bad ‘cause I’m brownAnd not the other color so police thinkThey have the authority to kill a minorityFuck that shit, ‘cause I ain’t the oneFor a punk motherfucker with a badge and a gunTo be beatin’ on, and thrown in jailWe can go toe to toe in the middle of a cell

— N.W.A., 1988

Do you know how cocksure and brazenly evil one must be to commit acts of police brutality at the protest against police brutality?

Maybe this N.W.A. was talking about:

https://twitter.com/sottcalum/status/1266934559821750272
https://twitter.com/_popaboywillie/status/1267257954048278529

Can’t you see itCan’t you feel itIt’s all in the airI can’t stand the pressure much longerSomebody say a prayer

Alabama’s gotten me so upsetTennessee made me lose my restAnd everybody knows about Mississippi goddam

— Nina Simone, 1964

Maybe Nina was inspired by motherfuckers like the mayor of Petal, Miss.

https://twitter.com/MississippiRise/status/1265788258560159744

To be fair, Marx is a big Trump supporter, who once said this:


And, despite what you may think about the belligerent negro rioters destroying property, protesters on social media are showing who is partly responsible for the chaos:

https://twitter.com/Selena_Adera/status/1267177625233080321
https://twitter.com/euphoriabliss_/status/1266825539295358976
https://twitter.com/mms5048/status/1267213759568805891

And it’s not just the white supremacist protesters:

https://twitter.com/kikimurphy_/status/1266936387124826113

But, as someone once said:

Straight From The Root

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