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See Public Enemy, '911 is a Joke', https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZDIitWz8Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZDIitWz8Go
by brianzelip 4y ago
See Public Enemy, '911 is a Joke', https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZDIitWz8Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZDIitWz8Go
- pocketsand 4y agoA song that laments how 911 ignores poor/black neighborhoods embodies a different sentiment than "fuck the police."
- smcl 4y agoI can see where you're going but I don't think these are the same. So on the one hand we have a song that describes how the police systematically target and brutalise black people in the USA and lays out the hatred and distrust the community feels towards them as a result. And on the other we have a song that says emergency services ignore black people due to the same systemic racism. I mean I'm editorialising a little, but while both suggest that black people are getting a pretty rotten deal decades after people usually thing the struggle for civil rights for black people were fought and ultimately won ... one indicates real, visceral hatred towards a single institution which has famously and repeatedly been confirmed to be well deserved (and additionally as a phrase or slogan is itself very well known around the anglophone world). The other does neither.