It's very much different from the times the song has been sung in the US by the civil rights movements. I understand it may be difficult without enough context.

It's very much different from the times the song has been sung in the US by the civil rights movements. I understand it may be difficult without enough context. I'll try to add some. Rinkeby is a district in Stockholm known for a high concentration of immigrants [1]. In the early nineties a murderer (called Lasermannen [2] due to using a laser sight on his gun) targeting random immigrants was at large in the area. People who lived there were understandably afraid and wanted to know what was being done to stop the shootings. The prime minister at the time (Carl Bildt) and the immigration minister (Birgit Friggebo) goes to Rinkeby to try to calm the upset people and answer their questions. You need to understand that when they come they have bodyguards and the whole shebang. Normally they work in a nice building in the city center (regeringskansliet), live in a big house in a nice neighborhood or an apartment in the city center or something like that. They have nothing in common with the scared people in Rinkeby. It's not a social movement meeting. It's not a protest meeting. It's a someone-is-killing-us-HELP!! kind of meeting. The people in Rinkeby did not come to sing a song, or to protest or overcome injustice. They came because they were afraid that they would be the next victim and wanted the shooter caught! It's in this context where Birgit Friggebo somehow gets her improvised "stroke of genius" and (quite forcibly) suggests that everyone sings "We Shall Overcome" as if she's a civil rights leader. She has no business suggesting such a thing! If you get the opportunity to watch the clip, check out the prime minister's reaction. He basically blurts out: "Hell No!" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinkeby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinkeby [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ausonius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ausonius