The excellent hip-hop song, "Sound of Da Police" is a song I first heard in the British film, Attack the Block. A film about inner-city Londoners fighting an alien invasion, it's much better than you would expect. This song, at attack on the police, comparing them to overseers on plantations, is more relevant now than ever after the murder of an unarmed, 18 year old black man in the Bronx. Ramarley Graham was pursued by cops into his own home and shot to death for no real reason except the fact that he was black and had some marijuana on him. Despite attempts to valorize the police, proclaiming they uphold justice and protect citizens, they have always been about maintaining the status quo. Any time a social movement emerges to create positive change, the police are on the opposing side, using firehoses, riot gear, guns, and brute force to quell it. So, in honor of all the black men, women, and people of all races and backgrounds who have borne the brunt of police brutality, let's all listen to "Sound of da Police." As Ramarley Graham learned so well, it's the sound of da beast. And anytime some fool tries to defend the police, blast this jam and laugh in their faces.
As I've learned over the past several years as a black man living in the plantation-like conditions we people of African descent still face, fuck the police.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oENrgffA5VI
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