December 13, 2014

Hands Up, Don’t Shoot, I Can’t Breathe, Die-In Demonstrations

 

The country is experiencing demonstrations across the country to protest police killing unarmed black people with alacrity. We, as a culture, seem to have reached a tipping point. “To Protect and Serve” as been besmirched by Michael Brown’s “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” and Eric Garner’s “I Can’t Breathe.” Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice never even got a chance to surrender.

We know what’s going on and we know it needs to change. People are speaking out, staging “die-ins” to express their concern [and of course being arrested for it by the police].

I raise my voice and concern and support by sharing this song, “Why Can’t We Live Together” by Diana King with Kyle Eastwood. For me, it says it all, and I know the artists feel the same. I hope you will, too.

Jack

From the album “From There to Here” by the Kyle Eastwood Quartet. Copyright (c) Columbia Records 1998. No copyright infringement intended.

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