Unity And Resistance Is A Strong American

Then About 12 Years Ago It Dawned On Me That Folk Music - The Music Of Woody Guthrie And Phil Ochs, Early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - Could Be As Heavy As Anything That Comes Through A Marshall Stack. The Combination Of Three Chords And The Right Lyrical Couplet Can Be As Heavy As Anything In The Metallica Catalogue.

There's A Unique Component Of Music That Is Different From, The Written Pamphlet Or A Speech. There's Something, When You Get The Right Combination Of Rhythm, Melody And The Right Lyrical Couplet, That Feels Like Truth In The Reptilian Brain. There's Something Hardwired In Our D.n.a.. And When You Get A Large Group Of People Singing Together In Solidarity, It's Something That, In My Experience, And I've Played Countless Demonstrations And Protests Through The Years, It's Something That Can Really Help A Struggle.

In America, We Have Freedom Of Choice. But Some Are Free To Choose Between Lamborghini And Rolls Royce While Others Are Free To Choose Which Dumpster They're Going To Have Their Meal Out Of Next. Some Are Free To Choose Which, You Know, Homes And Farms To Foreclosed On, While Others Choose Which Bridge They're Going To Sleep Under Tonight.

My Take Is That There's Two Ways To Approach History. You Sit In Your Armchair And You Watch It On The News And You Return To Your Playstation. Or You Get Out In The Streets And You Make It. Like, When Those Supreme Court Justices, You Know, Legalize Desegregation, It Wasn't Due To Their Infinite Wisdom. It's Because People Whose Names You Do Not Read About In History Books, People Whose Faces You Will Never See, Were The Ones Who Struggled And Sacrificed, Sometimes Gave Their Lives, To Make This Country A More Equal One. When, It's Like Those People Don't Make History, It's Us.

Charles Manson Loved The Beatles But Didn’t Understand Them. Governor Chris Christie Loves Bruce Springsteen But Doesn’t Understand Him. And Paul Ryan Is Clueless About His Favorite Band, Rage Against The Machine.