The Verdict

hmmm. The song was written durring the L.A. uprising in 1992. It places what we call "race riots" within historical context.

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[Drucef]

43% of white voters voted for Obama. It's time to get over the race issue. It will always exist on some level.

[smallrevolutions]

Why?  Concepts of race are not transhistorical or transcultural (universal over all time and space). Some cultures did not categorically divide humans according to race but the region from which they came. Why should racism always exist in the future if it did not always exist in the past?

[ch55x]

Folks keep forgetting that the Repub's of Lincoln's era are not that of today's...and freemen/slaves were ending slavery WAY before the so-called Civil War/Lincoln.

[smallrevolutions]

Good point.

[RoyLeeIV]

Step 1: Google Eric Frimpong, the story of prisoner f95488

Step 2: Read espn article

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Fucking rage like bees

[00Mandingo00]

All societies have done terrible things. We'll never progress if we dwell on the past. Rather, let's look at how far we've come since those dark times. We should look forward to the future. Dwelling on thing like this only spur hatred. There will always be bigots, anti-Semites, and people that want to shit all over everything.

[smallrevolutions]

I am telling you.

[oye22]

WTF!?

[jumbulya]

Yea, tell that to J.C. Watts and Thomas Sowell.

[smallrevolutions]

This is a simple view that overlooks things like the Repbulican Party of A.L. and MLK is not the same Republican Party of today. Republicans today are simply fascists.