"The urgency for that pick has gone from something that SHOULD happen to something that HAS to happen”
Black Lives Matter
"We cannot continue to tie our music and our positive message to a word associated with such negative weight and…
“My style, how I sing, dance, perform, and my fashion have all been influenced and inspired by black culture.”
"They wrote this song in 1992. it’s been 28 years since, and every word still applies."
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"We should’ve spoken up back then but we didn’t, we should’ve dug deeper."
He's donating to the families of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor as well as Black-owned businesses.
"Despite continued profiling, harassment, terror and killing of Black communities, local and federal decision-makers continue to invest in the police,…
Tom Morello rates it
#BlackLivesMatter
"We will be seen as who we are. I am not here for your entertainment."
"Have the courage to look at us as humans"
"[T]his ongoing systemic brutality by police is racist, it’s sickening, and it’s unsurprising."
"It is your duty not to burn your own house down"
"Australia has its own history of police brutality and Indigenous deaths in custody."
"Please join us as we take an urgent step of action to provoke accountability and change."
"IF ALL LIVES MATTER WHY ARE BLACK PEOPLE KILLED FOR JUST BEING BLACK?"
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