On May 4, 1970 four students at Kent State in Ohio were killed: Allison Krause and Jeff Miller, both protesters, and Sandy Scheuer and Bill Schroeder, who were ...
Beautiful, evocative track, definitely one of my all time favourites and
it's been popping up in my internal soundtrack a lot recently, with quite a
few recent anniversaries, combined with more recent events, keeping it
relevant.
As the uploader's video and blurb shows, the song is often taken as being
about the May 4th 1970 Kent State University massacre in the US, when
National Guardsmen opened fire on students protesting the genocidal war in
Vietnam, killing four. Apparently the song isn't actually about that, but
about another youth uprising a few years earlier, which kind of emphasises
the point I'm about to make.
Now, sure, Kent State was bad, but the reason Kent State is remembered when
so many other state killings are not is simply cos these were wealthy white
kids. Black, minority and native lives, then as now, as always, are
politically cheap and historically disposable.
It takes white lives being lost before liberal America gets upset enough to
say 'you know what, maybe there's a problem here'. And when their children
get bored playing revolution, white liberal society goes back to sleep. And
the killing can continue, and any anger, protest, uprising can be
discounted as thuggery and criminality. Until the next rich white kid with
a conscience gets killed.
Anyway, it's still a great song.
November 17th, 2011...NEW YORK — Police arrested protesters who sat on the
ground and blocked traffic into New York City's financial district on
Thursday, part of a day of mass gatherings in response to efforts to break
up Occupy Wall Street camps nationwide. Helmeted officers hauled several
protesters to their feet. Most of the crowd then assembled in Zuccotti
Park, from which the protesters' camp was evicted this week. There were
more rallies planned later in the day.
I don't have the option to reply to Alex G, but I have to weight in on what
he said.
Stalin was no communist, he murdered and imprisoned the real communists.
Take a read on the communist manifesto. Do some research on the commune de
paris, any true communist state rejects censorship completely. No, this
government is no hypocritical, this government is exactly what it is, a
fascist, plutocratic, capitalist police state.
you can not stop america like that.On that painful day in america life went
on.I went out side in albany NY and little kids were playing in the street
and a bum was pissing in my allie.you can come like sneaks in the night and
stab us in the back but you can't stop so what we are and thats free .Some
are not happy about that word and don't really no what it means.sorry, but
we will go on.
This was back in the day when music had a soul, a consciousness, meaning,
purpose and truth. Music used to have balls. Today's music is nothing but
random gibberish, it's made for the main purpose of sounding as loud and
obnoxious as possible, it has no other meaning, it doesn't have that
balance between melody and message, as this music has.
Fight the paranoia! CCTV cameras everywhere? What happened to our freedom?
Police endowed with authoritarian powers, hidden by the veil of
anti-terrorisme laws? Should a minority of extremists decide how we live?
NO! Governments are strangling our freedoms, slowly but surely under the
pretext of security. It is an abherration of democracy.
On May 4, 1970 four students at Kent State in Ohio were killed: Allison
Krause and Jeff Miller, both protesters, and Sandy Scheuer and Bill
Schroeder, who were bystanders. Eight other students were wounded; one of
them is paralyzed in a wheelchair. To this day, we still don't know who
gave the order to fire. *_* look at 2:00
If América was against comunism when this single was made, then why wouldnt
The government let The hippies speak their minds, seeing as though stalin
shot any one who spoke against him, And kim jong Il did The sane thing, is'
nt what The government did a little hipacritical?
Yes, research it. Stills wrote this about LA Riots stemming from a 10 pm
city curfew that the people who lived in that area and where effected by it
thought infringed on their civil rights.. it eventually came to a head and
blew up.
This song was written after Steven Stills witnessed the 1966 Sunset Strip
riot. It was not written as a war protest song, but as a statement on
authoritarian overreach and as a wake-up call to the youth culture of the
mid-60s.
Sad but true, I am 25 and I feel like I am 65 from all the history I have
studied. This song really does apply to today and the out of control war
mongering government. Too bad everybody my age won't wake up.
That actually could work with a montage of a 9/11 memorial video. The "look
what's rolling down" line would go with the towers falling, and I figure
the rest could be left to imagination.
Here it is 2014 and we're still fighting for civil rights and equality.
Kinda sad. I do miss the days of peace and love though, now it seems to be
gangs and shootings.
I read tons...and this song is very much about war. Its about other things
too, but it is certainly about war. Care to enlighten everyone as to why
you believe otherwise?
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