A Riot Is The Language Of The Unheard...MLK.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

[merrily]

1. Thank you, Peggy. If anyone wants to get involved,

http://www.handsupunited.org/join-the-movement/

There are probably more organizations. Maybe I will start a thread.

[Ken Burch]

2. Phil Ochs also had a great lyric on that theme:

In the heat of the summer
When the pavements were burning
The soul of a city was ravaged in the night
After the city sun was sinkin'

Now no one knows how it started
Why the windows were shattered
But deep in the dark, someone set the spark
And then it no longer mattered

Down the street they were rumbling
All the tempers were ragin'
Oh, where, oh, where are the white silver tongues
Who forgot to listen to the warnings?

On and on come the angry
No longer following reason
And all the stores were the target now
Where just the other day they were buyin'

Drunk with the memory of the ghetto
Drunk with the lure of the looting
And the memory of the uniforms shoving with their sticks
Asking, "Are you looking for trouble?"

"No, no, no," moaned the mayor
"It's not the way of the order
Oh, stay in your homes, please leave us alone
We'll be glad to talk in the morning"

"For shame, for shame," wrote the papers
"Why the hurry to your hunger?
Now the rubble's resting on your broken streets
So you see what your rage has unraveled"

Barricades sadly were risin'
Bricks were heavily flyin'
And the loudspeaker drowned like a whisperin' sound
When compared to the angered emotions

And when the fury was over
And the shame was replacing the anger
So wrong, so wrong, but we've been down to long
And we had to make somebody listen
In the heat of the summer...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. That song is so appropriate! Thank you for it, my dear Ken Burch...

I hadn't heard it before.

It works.

[Lars39]

6. Thanks for posting that!

I keep coming back to this one....just doesn't seem like we've progressed at all since then

Golden country your face is so red
With all of your money your poor can be fed
You strut around and you flirt with disaster
Never really carin' just what comes after
Well your blacks are dyin' but your back is still turned
And your freaks are cryin' but your back is still turned
You better stop your hidin or your country will burn
The time has come for you my friend
To all this ugliness we must put an end
Before we leave we must make a stand
Mortgage people you crawl to your homes
Your security lies in your bed of white foam
You act concerned but then why turn away
When a lady was raped on your doorstep today
Well your blacks are cryin' but your back is still turned
And your freaks are dyin' but your back is still turned
You better stop your hidin or your country will burn
The time has come for you my friend
To all this ugliness we must put an end
Before we leave we must make a stand, oh yeah......

[blkmusclmachine]

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[JEB]

5. A most excellent and thoughtful post.