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What Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. might say to Bono and US!

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And so, to commemorate Martin Luther King Day 2010, I spin what King might say to Bono:

In 1985, you joined forces with a group of artists concerned about Apartheid in South Africa and were inspired by your meetings with several of them, to write "Silver and Gold"



U2 - Freedom For My People/Silver And Gold (Rattle and Hum)




Yep, silver and gold.
This song was written in a hotel room in New York City.
'Round about the time a friend or ours, little Steven,
was putting together a record of artists against apartheid.
This is a song written about a man in a shanty town outside of Johannesburg.
A man who's sick of looking down the barrel of white South Africa.
A man who is at the point where he is ready to take up arms against his oppressor.
A man who has lost faith in the peacemakers of the west while
they argue and while they fail to support a man like bishop Tutu
and his request for economic sanctions against South Africa.
Am I buggin' you?





I mean to bug you Bono, because the only way to break this monster's back is by first understanding WHY it is Apartheid in the 'Holy' Land!




In 2004, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel's Wall is a violation of International Law because it cuts through the West Bank appropriating Palestinian land and destroying Palestinian villages and economy to make way for Jewish only colonies, which are been spun as neighborhoods by limp media and colluding governments.

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