[Reader-list] Public Enemy vs Arizona: Sonic Immigration

[Paul D. Miller]

Very strange and reactionary response.

Joshua - can you please enlighten me on my 'racist politics' and my  
relationship to Al Sharpton?

You're sounding a bit shrill and to be completely honest, totally  
irrational.

Paul


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On May 4, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:

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>   I'm writing this from the Arizona Capitol.
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>   Paul, we don't want your racist politics here.  Al Sharpton has  
> nothing in common with the illegal aliens.  You are not only a  
> traitor to your country but a traitor to your own people.  How can  
> you turn against a country that has given you so much?
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>   we do remember history.  We remember it very well.
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>   Check it:  http://www.buffalosoldiermuseum.com/? 
> linkid=410&webid=1000
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>   -jmz
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> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Paul D. Miller  
> <anansi1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hey people - I just finished a studio session with Chuck D from  
> Public Enemy. In the wake of Republican Governor Jan Brewer's  
> appalling anti-immigrant law, me and Chuck D were rappin' and we  
> decided to put together an update of his classic track "By The Time  
> I get To Arizona."
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> You can download the track from here:
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> http://www.djspooky.com/music_download_form.html
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> Anyone who knows about hip hop from the early 90's remembers John  
> McCain's unwillingness to endorse creating a local version of Martin  
> Luther King's birthday. The update here is a 21st century look in  
> the rear view mirror. The cliché that "those who don't learn from th 
> e past are doomed to repeat it" still holds sway in our hyper amnesi 
> ac culture. I remixed D.W. Griffith's infamous film Birth of a Natio 
> n  with a bit of Public Enemy in mind, and later on, they named an e 
> .p. with the same name as my project. Me and Chuck D have done sever 
> al projects in the past around progressive, non knucklehead hip hop.
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> Please feel free to download this track and pass it around. We are  
> the media. Feel free to pass it around!
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> By the way, this is a mashup, and it's basically not really for  
> sale. I just took a riff from Philly Sound (www.funkadelphiarecords.com 
> ), and flipped it. The result, is what you hear here. It's free, and  
> open. No $!!
> You can download a better resolution version of the track here:
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> http://www.djspooky.com/music_download_form.html
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> Check it!
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> Paul
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