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  • did he get back to the band?

  • excuse me... did he say he's black? o.o really?

  • @Evaquiel half black.

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  • I know this is stating the obvious, but man, Tom is so fn' smart! Most guests on Strombo don't really know what to do with his odd ball deep questions and flip flopping of subjects, Tom had no problems keeping up to his questions and providing thoughtful answers. I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of rage, but I love that their support for human rights and how they have a good message with their music. You've got to respect that.

  • he is like the mad scientist of guitar fuck that muse guitarist with his little touch screen tome can do more

  • @christian661199 .lol please.i love tom but matt bellamy is better (in my opinion anyway).

  • @M10663 i'm not a big muse fan ( my sister is bad singer and sings there songs all the time so she ruined that band for with the image of her sinning) but i think matt has a cool guitar but thats his down fall i have a mod guitar like him and it makes to easy to do effects and to me that takes the challenge and fun out of it

  • there are tons of awesome guitarists... some of which are my favorites... yet this man is THE SHIT!!!! keep sticking it to the man! Long LIVE TOM MORELLO!!!

  • i stopped doing homework for this

  • listen tom!! visit POLAND and you'll have best audience ever!!

  • rage against the machine is anti-socialist

  • @kennydyn what?

  • @kennydyn Rage Against The Machine is anti-capitalist

  • @kennydyn Lol are you kidding? They're very much socialist, unfortunately most Americans don't know what socialism is.

  • Well not a ex member of rage any more apparently there back together.

  • @AchillesCyanide

    i fucking wish.

    wait..really?..would be great.

  • "I was the only black kid in a white town"...i don't really see any 'black'-ness about him, he seems more middle eastern or latino if anything, but it's all esthetic in the end

  • Tom Morello Is The Best Guitarist EVER

  • @xXBLIZZDARKO49Xx i wouldnt really go as far as that

  • @xXBLIZZDARKO49Xx RICHI SAMBORA , JIMMY JENDRIX , TOM MORELLO , BILLIE JOE , ETC ETC ARE GREATS GUITARRIST

  • @xXBLIZZDARKO49Xx He's good but far from the best lolll

  • Rage against the machine that gives you the opportunity to EXPRESS your beliefs, worship how you so CHOOSE and, by the way, made you a MILLIONAIRE. Your musicianship is only equalled by your hypocrisy. You should thank the so called machine.

  • Shhhhhhiiiiittt!!!!!!!!!!! Harvard Grad?! Wow

  • he's mixed - father was black mother was white. i love his talent as an artist i dont agree with his political views.

  • he's black?

  • @GKrizzel no shit!! oh let me guess you dnt like him anymore? 

  • Could Tom grow hair if he wanted to?

  • @707HAMMERHEAD707

    dudeeveryone can grow hair..... even girls can grow hair on their chest if they want to.....

  • in my country tom morello would be considered of mixed heritage, not black. anyway, that dude kicks ass both at the guitar and through spoken language.

  • "Sleep now in the fire" should be the song played at the funeral of those tried and convicted of bankrupting this country and trying to set up world government covertly. Also the puss-pockets that call the shots from behind the curtains and handle the puppets like Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush sr., Reagan, etc, etc. Rage Against the Machine was and is a fine band for those that are tired of big government. We as Americans better get the game together before the game gets us.

  • Joe Strummer = the man.

  • Ex rage? He's in Rage right now...

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  • @truongkahp1

    they meant ex- audioslave. idk whats wrong with the title.

  • @XShotkillX He's both.

  • @XShotkillX but there just touring right now, not working on or planning on releasing a new record, (would be badass if they did though)

  • he's way to in to himself and his "political convictions"

  • hes black!?!?!?!?!?1

  • @blackfire053

    hes as black as obama... aka like 8% XD HAHAHA

  • @XShotkillX 8%? where do you get that from? your a crack baby, with down syndrome!!

  • @blackfire053 yeh he's black!! i bet you hate him now and RATM. do you know zack is mexican? and brad is jewish? is there a problem?

  • @mmantech no. rage is one of the greatest bands ever. I just thought that because he dosent look black. I knew zack was mexican his last name is dela rocha.. and I knew brad was jewish. he just dosent "look" black. im not rascist asshole i just didnt know that. so shut up.

  • @blackfire053 ok good your not racist!! because if you were, just listen to the lyrics and you would know that there RAGE is against racist!! but how does it "look" to be black? there isnt any monolithic way u know?

  • @mmantech yea. you can tell if someone is black, because there black. and i know there against racism you fucking retard. shut up.

  • @blackfire053 dnt get angry bro. we can have healthy arguments, unless u are a right wing, facist, racist, religious nutjob. u say your not.....good!! sorry but i had to respond to all hate whether it be racism, sexism, homophobia whatever. but im glad your not a hater!! i cant say that for the rest of the people on this page.

  • YES!!!!

  • Tear gassed countless times. I'd LOVE to see that fact-checked. Such posturing. For a socialist, he certainly is prideful. So impressed with himself. 

  • THANK YOU TOM !!!! FOR ADDMITTING BEING A " HARVED " GRAD!!!! VIVA MORELLO

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  • Tom Morello reminds me of a lot of misguided idiots I have known. They let their rebel-without-a-clue rage, faulty pre-suppostions, and glaring limitations guide their illogic and skewered decision-making. In reality Tom and the others have no idea of the rank bile they are peddling as some arcane truth. By the way, he would last one hour in a Muslim country and pray to God that Bush was back in power to rescue his sorry ass.

  • @rockyracune So here you are again, spreading your capitalist do-what-i-tell-ya bullshit. Just calm the fuck down and let people have their opinions. If you don't like it, then don't comment these videos.

  • @Topsipopsi You can hold all the damn shit opinions you want. I'm not stopping you.

  • @rockyracune I'd like to see Bush last thirty seconds in the Middle East after he fucked them up so badly. Enjoy your greed.

  • @rockyracune I hate ragheads. They can all suck donkey dick and die for I care. I wish Bush would have nuked them all. NO MOSQUE NEAR GROUND ZERO

  • @EW8S93 you sir, are a fucking Moron (Y)

  • @CyberGlam66sic why because I'm still allowed to say what I want? Fuck you nigger/nigger lover. Eat a dick and die

  • @EW8S93 glad to see people who are willing to have the blood of hundreds of millions on their hands without much thought.

    Should be proud of yourself, really. Not that many people are that lacking in morality or humanity.

  • @OrlandoClassWar more people should. I wish we had more people like Hitler around. Then people like you and fags wouldnt exist. Their would be no niggers, no ragheads. We'd all be at peace after we killed every piece of shit like you nigger lovers

  • @EW8S93 your a sicko!!

  • @rockyracune do you have down syndrome??

  • ESTA CHIDO

  • He's Italian and Irish from his mother's side, and Kenyan on his father's side. His mother founded the anti-censorship group Parents For Rock And Rap, his father was the first ambassador from Kenya to the United Nations, and his uncle, Jomo Kenyatta, was the first elected president in Kenya.

  • is tom morello black ? wtf he doesnt look like it

  • @XFFCTpunkrowk He's half kenyan (Father's side) and half italian (Mother's side).

  • Check him out with ' the Boss " Ghost of Tom Joed, FN wicked !

  • i dunno i'v always thought he was part black from the time i found out about rage against the machine,but before i just thought he was part african american not kenyan, also i think his dad was a kenyan ambassador or something...

  • tom morello is half kenyan??

  • hes half italian american and kenyan...his mom is italian and his dad is kenyan

  • yeah he half kenyan and hes like a cousin or something to the embassador of kenya

  • @drfeelgood32795 he's as they say "Obama black" ;)

    They are strangely similar. Both went to Harvard. Both raised by single mothers (fathers have Kenyan roots, parents divorcing at a young age). Both went to Harvard. Both call Chicago home despite being born elsewhere.. etc :P

  • @8182570 i also was thinking the same - i noticed the way obama and morello talk, the inflection in their voice and sentence structure, is really quite similar.

  • Tom Morello is black...?

    I was not aware of that.

  • me to i thought he was brizilian or some type of latin

  • I know!!!!

  • @JohnnyH87 is there a problem?? zack is mexican, and brad is jewish. problem?

  • i thought he was spanish. well i guess thats a 1st for me

  • I never knew he was black?! wtf?!?!?! I thought he was just a white guy that always kept up with his tan haha

  • @betterdropdatdonk whats so funny? did you know zack is mexican and brad is jewish? i cant stand you fuckers!

  • @mmantech commenting on shit a year old, whats wrong with you?! LOL

  • @betterdropdatdonk yeh i kno..LOL i dnt why i let it get to me this time?! i see and hear this covert racism and hate all over youtube and i usually just feel sorry for the scumbags with hate in thier heart and move on. but since its a vid on tom and what he and what RATM stands for, i had to channel tom, zack and the guys and speak out against this crap!! u feel me tho?

  • @mmantech Its not racism its just weird to make assumptions on what race a person may be, then be totally wrong hahaha. I always loved Rob Schneider, I thought he was maybe half italian or a dark skinned euro because hes a funny guy, and then I found out hes half filipino due to hints and stuff from his movies and hes even more funny in my opinion. Hes a funny guy despite his race. Race doesnt mean shit. We are all people. =]

  • Tom went to Harvard....irony??

  • I'm curious, why in America if you are half black-half Caucasian, you're automatically considered as a black person? I've noticed this for a long time now and I've never understood why?

    Here in France it's called being "métisse". The double identity is completely recognised as a full one. Tom Morello in France would not being considered as a black person (or either white), but a "métisse" (<-- both = black + Caucasian).

    (sorry for my not so perfect english ^^)

  • I was born and raised in the US and consider Tom multiracial. Some people use the term "mixed," (but people are saying that word is politically incorrect now). It really depends on who's doing the labeling.

  • @TruthAddic he doesnt give a fuck what you consider him!! does it make u feel better to call him multiracial than black? that way you can like him more? you make me sick!!

  • @mmantech Some advice for you, make sure you have some clue what the subject is about before commenting about it. And FYI, I was replying to melleEdie's question, who asked why in America if a person is half black and white, why are they are considered black. Another piece of advice, try not to take Youtube comments so personal, you'll have more fun on the internets, I promise.

  • It's called the "One drop rule". Basically in American society, you're either black or white, there is no in-between. Some people identified themselves are multiracial, but this is not the way the American society categorizes people in general.

    Please, remember that black, and white are strongly linked to ethnicity in the US, not just appearance. So if somebody says I am black, they're usually saying that they're African American, even if they have more European features.

  • Thank you very much for this informative reply. Your

    answer pushed me to do some research on the subject (

    "The One Drop Rule"), and it look so crazy to me how

    America seems to be so irreparably stuck in the past on

    this problem.

    It makes me feel relief that my African friends, (and

    my 2 nieces who are half Malian, half French-Russian) lives

    here. America seems to be quite complicated when it

    come to black or multi/bi-racial people.

  • Yeah, tell me about it. Race in the US is a very complex issues with some many different factors involved in it that one can never really understand the whole thing.

  • XD yeah its been that way for a while prince,morrello,obama,corbin blue,haliey berry etc. are all counted as black by themselves and to the world the only person mixed that i dont know counts himself is slash i know tiger woods thinks he is white but he is truley only black and asian

  • watch?v=Ua7br2ge4J4

    Rage against the machine mix!

  • it great to see a celebrity who does not have his head in his ass. a smart, pro-socialist; i doubt megan fox would advocate that bahaha

  • that's because she's a crack head.

  • @madhatter060

    agreed, but id still do anything to bang megan fox.

  • @madhatter060 the fact that you have smart and pro-socialist in the same sentence tells me that everyone should completely disregard anything you have to say and you might as well strap a nazi swastika to your arm so everyone knows that you are a part of the reason we have a president who hasn't a damn clue as to what he is doing

  • @madhatter060 no...but i would advocate her sleeping with me...

  • @madhatter060 socialism will never work

  • @Hardtack444 he looks white to me. 

  • @EW8S93 He's half Kenyan, half Irish...go figure.

  • @morry040 I dont remember what I said

  • he rly doesnt look black, not that i care if he's black or white

  • @thebitchishungry sure you care.

  • @thebitchishungry hes both. no really, hes half! its awesome!

  • @thebitchishungry hes clearly mixed race.

  • @thebitchishungry: Racist haha just kidding.

  • i wouldn't say he was black

  • hes half kenyan

  • @oadams2 he says he's black. you dnt count!! zack is mexican and brad is jewish. do you hate Rage now?

  • I have never EVER seen him without that cap.

    Does he even have hair?!

  • no haha

  • watch the sleep now in the fire video. he doesnt wear a cap.

  • Does it look like he has hair?

  • you may never know

  • funny how he always wears a baseball cap

  • he's more white than black. if i didn't know who he was and met him for the first time, i'd think he was white.

  • He's half white

  • @funlivelife does that make you feel better? zack is mexican and brad is jewish. what do you have to say about that?

  • Jeff Buckley took a pseudonym and played alot of coffee houses

  • haha i dont want to feel special my friend. i was just saying that more ppl need to start lisyening to more than one music genre. i dont just listen to rage against the machine. or just rock or metal. i listen to almost all genres of music. and im a big believer than music also brings ppl together. i know that theyve had alot of airplay. wut musician hasnt? thats how they get their music out there. im awake my friend. :) thanx for the comment

  • If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of super-rich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead, it becomes logical, even the perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs, Communism or more accurately, socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite.- Gary Allen

  • I think he's purple, not black.

  • youre right

  • why would you say ex member, it should be former member

  • former and ex are the same thing

  • more black ppl need to start listening to some rock!! this shyt is fucking amazing!! FUCK the mainstream shyt.

  • Rock is as mainstream as anything. Especially Rage Against The Machine. The fact that they use distorted guitars and screamy vocals doesn't take away thousands of hours or TV & radio playtime they've had, let alone the business franchise they've set up around their genre.

    I know you want to feel special and think that clinging to musical genres is the way to go about it, but at some point you're going to have to wake up.

  • no tom's mom is white, but his dad was born in kenya and is black obvioulsy, and is part of the UN represneting kenya

  • Tom does have that type of "what race is he" kind of look.

  • what a retard. The man who has a hammer and sickle on his guitar. Yeah, tyranny is awesome.

  • does it matter

  • slash and tom morello are the best guitarist ever and both are half-black

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  • Stop playing guitar hero.

  • stop bein a bitch

  • slash is 1/2 black? didn't know that

  • yea hie mom is black and his dad is from the u.k.

  • i know you did not just say that.either your joking or your a total assclown.i hope its not the latter,but we all know how that goes

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  • You obviously dont play guitar making statements like that

  • Why the focus on "what color he is" the dude rocks so who cares! He could be purple and I wouldn't care. Well actually that would be cool but anyway just focus on the music. I know you people weren't being racist but you know it's about the music.

  • I totally agree with you,man.

    It's not about the color, it's about the MUSIC!!

  • tom morello's black?

  • yes sir:P

  • His dad is from Kenya

  • does that matter?

  • No he's green..

  • half

  • the hour kicks ass

  • Worth a squirt of piss in terms of a message at least then. Maybe System of a down as well.

  • This seems to me to be the only band that is worth a squirt of piss amongst all these media hack bands and tweety pop arse wipes.

  • look harder youll find better bands

  • Yes perhaps but what do they stand for? They stand for self interest in a world where the last time I checked we were not alone.

  • yup your totally right give up on every band because you listen to shitty radio music and think every band is that way yea there pretty much isnt nay bands in the entire world that stand for anything look past your norm to try some different genres out

  • his great uncle or great great uncle was the first elected president of kenya

  • Respect. Morello's one of a kind, as is RATM. Revolution!

  • keep your life-failage and redneck opinions to yourself

  • rage WAS broken up, but now they're together again, ccalled rage against the machine reunion

  • hes not "black" his dad was a kenyan.

  • 200 BABIES!!!!!

  • Eh 400 babies!

  • so is a kenyan not black?

  • He says "I was the only black kid"... ?

  • He is Half Kenyan.

  • But then why did he describe himself as "the only black kid in a white village/town" ? And are kenyans not black?

  • Because if you're half black, you're still black. His father is Kenyan. And Kenya is in Africa. Most Africans are Black.

  • If you're half-black, you may be still black as same as being half-white, you're still white.

  • Haha, I didn't even realize he was black until he said it.

  • I don't think he is black

  • He said he was black in the interview, also, in a Q & A with his fans, he said he had a kenyen father and a white mother. He was talking about his similarities with Obama at the time.

  • he seems a little to preachy, but his music isn't bad

  • I never noticed tom was black untill now.

  • he looks just tan to me

  • Tom is such a frikin genius

    I love how he pokes fun at himself and the band for complaining about the Clinton administration haha

  • what kind of hat is Tom wearing. like the ones with the colored bill