while i don’t subscribe to the whole message of this song (equality is not something that should be aspired toward), i still very much like it. what’s especially unique about the chili peppers is that they appeared right when all the whiggers started popping up in the music industry… trying to form a bridge between cRap and cRock (think ‘limp triscuit’… or biscuit, rather), and yet when kiedis rapped, we didn’t get the feeling he thought he was Ice T. moreover, they never compromised their signature sound. the cRap they did was very rare and only a gesture to attract the mainstream audience.
Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe.”
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
Elie Wiesel