I Didn't Grow Up With My Kenyan

The Real Estate Agent Had To Go Door-to-door In The Apartment Building We Wanted To Rent, Asking If It Was Ok For This Interracial Family - My Mom Is White And I Was A 1-year-old Half-african Kid - To Live In The Apartment Building.

Poverty Is Curable, But It’s Just Not Done, Because It's Not Profitable. And That Is The Kind Of Violence That's Perpetuated On Humanity.

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.

Poverty Is Not An Accident Of, Sort Of, An Economic Spreadsheet. Poverty Is A Crime. There Are Criminals Involved. And Those Criminals Walk The Streets As Free Men. What My Music Is About, And What - This From The Riots In The Streets Of Greece And Spain To The People's Uprisings In Egypt And Libya And Madison Is About Is Holding Those People Accountable, Those Who Are Responsible For Subverting The Entire Global Economy And Causing So Much Misery And Then Laughing About It With Their, You Know, Clinking Their Champagne Glasses On Their Yachts.

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.