They literally made a song where the hook is 'I am going to kill the rich Whities in my city.' How did they get with it?
>Yeah I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun
>These people ain't seen a brown skin man
>Since their grandparents bought one
>>14102I bet Paul Ryan always pictures himself as the boy on the cover.
>Evil Empire is the second studio album by the American rock band Rage Against the Machine, released on April 16, 1996, by Epic Records. It debuted at number 1 on the US Billboard 200 chart with first week sales of 249,000 copies, and the song "Tire Me" won a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance; "Bulls on Parade" and "People of the Sun" were nominated for Grammys for Best Hard Rock Performance. On May 24, 2000, the album was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.[5]
< The title actually came from a speech by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, and he addressed the Soviet Union as the "evil empire". If you look at the atrocities committed by the U.S. in the latter half of the 20th century, we feel that tag could be easily used to describe the U.S. < — Zack de la Rocha
< The image of the second record was a little more ironic, you know? Considering if you look very closely at the boy's face, he symbolizes the power structure in the U.S.—and if you look at him, he's smiling as if he's in control—but if you look deeper into his face, you see that he's afraid, because he knows what's coming. He knows that poor people in the U.S. are not going to suffer in the way that they are suffering without taking action. < — Zack de la Rocha
>The album's CD booklet includes a picture of a pile of various political and philosophical books, which include:[12]
>A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn < Capital, Volume I by Karl Marx >A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce <The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell > Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevara >Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton <Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver > The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon <Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler > [Manufacturing Consent: The Political <Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky> Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal < Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo > Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism by Alexander Berkman <The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck > Rules for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky < Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson > Walden and Resistance to Civil Government by Henry David Thoreau< Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison> Another Country by James Baldwin >>14107 "My grandfather was a revolutionary fighter." >"My interest in this struggle has to do with my personal experiences, with my roots, my family. My father is a Chicano muralist. He belonged to the group "Los Four," the only Mexican group that had an exhibition at the Los Angeles Art Museum. His attempts at trying to build bridges between the artists in Los Angeles, the workers, and Chicanos against Vietnam, led me politically towards the National Liberation movements. Also, my Sinaloan grandfather was a revolutionary fighter who fought in the Mexican Revolution. My grandfather went to the United States as an economic migrant. He was an agricultural laborer in Silicon Valley, California.
>"His working days lasted from 15 to 16 hours daily, sweating and subjected to poverty… I see his experience reflected in the testimonies of the Zapatistas, the indigenous peasant rebels who struggle every day to make a living." I experienced the terror
> "It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.
>"The rock band Rage Against the Machine has become an alternative medium of communication for young people. We have created a great level of cooperation between groups and people to spread the ideas of the Zapatista movement in its relationship to the poor, the young, the excluded and the dispossessed in the United States. Through concerts, videos, interviews, broadcasting of information at concerts and our song's lyrics, we have placed the experience of the Zapatistas within reach of young people, our audience.
>"We act as facilitators so that they can participate, and we put them in contact with the organizations and Zapatista support committees in the United States.
> "And the interest and involvement of the young people of the United States in the struggle of the Chiapan indigenous people is greater each day because of these things. Because of that we feel a part of this process and for this reason our music has become a bridge."
> "Later, at the beginning of 1996, I organized a group of young people: students, artists, activists from East Los Angeles, to go to Chiapas. "It was just before the first San Andres Accords were to be signed. We saw how militarization had increased, we saw how the militarization of more than 70,000 soldiers obligated the 70,000 families to face death through hunger. We also saw the threat and daily intimidation suffered by the communities. We became conscious of the importance of civil society creating a defense line because one of the obstacles that we could create against the low intensity war was to be in the communities, to be with the children while the men went to work in the fields - just to be there. "My experience in Chiapas inspired me to write back in the United States - the songs "The Wind Below" and "Without a Face"(vidrel) from our second album, Evil Empire."
> "And the interest and involvement of the young people of the United States in the struggle of the Chiapan indigenous people is greater each day because of these things. Because of that we feel a part of this process and for this reason our music has become a bridge."
>"Later I was at La Realidad for the Continental Encounter for Humanity Against Neoliberalism. We realized the importance of dialogue between civil society and the Zapatistas, and we identified with them as a generation. We are a people without a party. We are for a different world where money is not the only exchange value. We are against racist politics in the United States.
> "Given the crisis and the Free Trade Agreement, the people of the United States also feel like people 'without a face, that is, with no alternatives, without possibilities. Dialogue and the importance of the place given to us by the Zapatistas made us feel that we were a part of the Zapatista struggle, because we are students, workers, artists… and many of us are Mexican." And the guy playing the crazy bassline is a White guy btw. The drummer is Jewish. It was funny I did a search for this song on 4plebs, there were a lot of /pol/tards going:
>ughhhh I can't believe I used to like RATM>they want to kill White people! Listen to Down Rodeo.A lot of people getting mad at them because they were pro vaxx.
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/text/%22down%20radio%22/>>14119>The 90's were a fun time, we didn't know any betterSame vibes as Musk being disappointed that you can kill cops in GTA games. Anti-SJW rightoids became what they hate.
>>14118>A lot of people getting mad at them because they were pro vaxx.Didn't they become increasingly more idpol-obsessed in 2010s too?
>>14147>Same vibes as Musk being disappointed that you can kill cops in GTA games. Anti-SJW rightoids became what they hate.These people just don't give a shit about what they're talking about. It's just culture war points to gain.
Obviously maybe they just never seriously engaged with said media critically, but the "ugh GTA is degenerate now" shit that so fucking many right wingers were doing last year, even the ex-gamergate nerd ones, just fucking goes to show these people literally do not fucking care about what they're talking about it. You see it when they're talking about comics, anime, books, almost fucking anything really. It's all just culture war opportunism but people only complain when libs do it, but the rightoids are never seen as infiltrating hobbies
>>14118Absolute retardation
>However, leftism has changed. What used to be a disagreement is now as you say hatred of me blah blah blah antiwhiteThese are the "ex-lefists" you see online who were just libs who didn't pay attention until their inner reactionary kicked in and just became full on right wing.
If anything leftism became less and less confrontational and look at where we are now
>>14119>I used to think they were so edgy and rebellious So they're not edgy and rebellious, because they offend you and your whitoid middle sensibilities?
Do these guys know how pearl-clutchy they sound despite trying to present themselves as internet edgelords? What a bunch of a fags
>>14793this thread was my first time hearing it
t. late late 20's zoomer
>>14111The second guy is a good one.
>>14807I love the ending to that.
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