Cop Killer (http://it.uwp.edu/gangsters/ice-t.cop.killer.html) wasn't them. I think if it had been their song, they'd have made the irony a lot clearer -- oh shit, now I'm a cop killer and I'm gonna die in jail, no freedom for the black man but only for the pale -- keep in mind police brutality and racial profiling were the prevailing conditions.
If you completely ignore Public Enemy's message, yeah, maybe they opened the door for black men to be able to be angry in public. But (a) that's not such a terrible thing, and (b) you really have to understand what they were angry about.
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Date: 2004-08-31 07:38 am (UTC)If you completely ignore Public Enemy's message, yeah, maybe they opened the door for black men to be able to be angry in public. But (a) that's not such a terrible thing, and (b) you really have to understand what they were angry about.