{"id":1419,"date":"2020-06-04T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bruce-springsteen-on-george-floyd-protests-u-s-still-haunted-by-slavery\/"},"modified":"2020-06-04T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T14:30:00","slug":"bruce-springsteen-on-george-floyd-protests-u-s-still-haunted-by-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bruce-springsteen-on-george-floyd-protests-u-s-still-haunted-by-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bruce Springsteen on George Floyd protests: U.S. still \u2018haunted\u2019 by slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Bruce Springsteen on George Floyd protests: U.S. still \u2018haunted\u2019 by slavery<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n By Bruce Haring, Deadline<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

June 4, 2020 |<\/span> 10:30am <\/p>\n

\n Bruce Springsteen reflected Wednesday on the protest movement erupting across the nation in the wake of Minneapolis man George Floyd\u2019s death. He said, \u201cWe remain haunted, generation after generation, by our original sin of slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Springsteen made his comments on SiriusXM as part of his ongoing \u201cBruce Springsteen \u2014 From His Home to Yours\u201d series<\/a> on E Street Radio.<\/p>\n

The songs he picked in the two-hour broadcast reflected his views on political protest and racial injustice.<\/p>\n

He began with his own \u201c41 Shots (American Skin),\u201d which he wrote about the death of Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo in a confrontation with the New York Police Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cEight minutes,\u201d Springsteen said. \u201cThat song is almost eight minutes long. That\u2019s how long it took George Floyd to die with a Minneapolis officer\u2019s knee buried into his neck. That\u2019s a long time. That\u2019s how long he begged for help and said he couldn\u2019t breathe. The arresting officer\u2019s response was nothing but silence and weight. Then he had no pulse. And still it went on \u2026 May he rest in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we speak, 40 million people are unemployed,\u201d Springsteen added. \u201c100,000 plus citizens have died from COVID-19 with only the most tepid and unfeeling response from our White House. As of today, our black citizens continue to be killed unnecessarily by our police on the streets of America. As of this broadcast, the country is on fire and in chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n

Springsteen also played recordings of Childish Gambino\u2019s \u201cThis Is America,\u201d Bob Marley and the Wailers\u2019 \u201cBurnin\u2019 and Lootin\u2019,\u201d Kanye West\u2019s \u201cWho Will Survive in America?\u201d and three Bob Dylan tunes: \u201cPolitical World,\u201d \u201cBlind Willie McTell\u201d and \u201cMurder Most Foul.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe remain haunted, generation after generation, by our original sin of slavery,\u201d he said prior to \u201cBlind Willie McTell.\u201d \u201cIt remains the great unresolved issue of American society. The weight of its baggage gets heavier with each passing generation. As of this violent, chaotic week on the streets of America, there is no end in sight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Springsteen also played Billie Holiday\u2019s \u201cStrange Fruit.\u201d \u201cOne of the darkest songs in the American canon,\u201d Springsteen said. \u201cThe video of the death of George Floyd is a 21st-century visual lynching and \u2018Strange Fruit\u2019 was written about the lynchings of black Americans after the Reconstruction and into the 20th Century.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018As of this violent, chaotic week on the streets of America, there is no end in sight.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A speech that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered to a Birmingham, Alabama, audience was also played during the set.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have not cared for our house very well,\u201d Springsteen said. \u201cThere can be no standing peace without the justice owed to every American regardless of their race, color or creed. The events of the last week have once again proved that idea. We need systemic changes in our law enforcement departments and the political will of our national citizenry to once again move forward the kind of changes that will bring the ideals of the civil rights movement once again to life and into this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last songs of the show were \u201cAmerica (My Country, \u2018Tis of Thee)\u201d by the United States Army Field Band Soldiers Chorus and \u201cIn My Hour of Darkness\u201d\u00a0by Gram Parsons.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a choice between chaos or community, a spiritual, moral and democratic awakening or becoming a nation fallen to history as critical issues were refused or not addressed,\u201d Springsteen said. \u201cIs our American system flexible enough to make, without violence, the humane, fundamental changes necessary for a just society?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe American story, our story, is in our hands and may God bless us all,\u201d he continued. \u201cStay safe. Stay well. Stay strong. Until we meet again, stay involved. And go in peace.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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