Music and lyrics have something in common they both have a rhythm,a pace they both go off of sound. Lyrics can appeal to us in more way than one, music has an emotional sense appeals a drive, it just wants you to feel what the lyrics are and it lets you feel the emotions of the kind of song it is. For example, John Legend and Common both produced a song called “Glory”, the lyrics are so touching and truthful about our history, the current times, and how people continue to reach glory, The beat or the music in the back is so calm and serious it makes you feel the sadness. John Legend conveniences people to protest injustice through his song using anger, while using logical explanation through history.
Injustice is something that the blacks disagree …show more content…
Common also discusses recent events, he mentions the boy who got killed in Ferguson on August 10, 2015, the boy was only 18 years old, he was looking for cops for assistants and the police shot him because they claim that he opened fire on them with a stolen handgun says a source (New York Post). He sings: One sons died, his spirit is revisitin’ us / True and livin’ livin’ in us, resistance is us /… / That’s why we walk through Ferguson with our hands up.(15-18)
People resist and that makes the police think that they can just keep treating blacks unfairly and unequally. People walk with their hands up so that they don 't get shot or killed by the police, blacks logical reasoning to save themselves is by having their hands up so that there is no confusion if the person has a weapon or not, to save lives and have hope for the greater good.
Common mentions the two people that made history, to make people think, understand, be grateful for, it makes blacks feel goosebumps, see what Parks and King have gone through and done for them. King has made such a huge impact on people to this day and he continues to be a hero for everyone, he done a lot for the blacks to make equality between the blacks and whites, to stop injustice. Common …show more content…
Racial segregation is a major issue in today 's world, another major issue we have is ignorance and injustice, the author Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the economic Policy Institute, and he also is the senior fellow of chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law. In Richard Rothstein’s article “The Story Behind Ferguson” he expresses his emotional and logical reasoning to the different views about segregation and how the whites treated the blacks, the struggle for being a black trying to go to school. Rothstein mentions: “We cannot narrow the achievement gap to any significant extent in segregated schools. And we cannot desegregate schools unless we desegregate neighborhoods.” (32) He’s discussing the struggle for black kids to get good grades and become something, how teachers focus more on discipline rather than instructions, due to the blacks routinely getting ill due to malnourishment. The textbooks have different stories about segregation, and what the real truth is, not many people know how the fight went before blacks could finally afford homes, and schooling, when they no longer needed food stamps to support their families. It also talks about how whites tried to run the blacks
Injustice is something that the blacks disagree …show more content…
Common also discusses recent events, he mentions the boy who got killed in Ferguson on August 10, 2015, the boy was only 18 years old, he was looking for cops for assistants and the police shot him because they claim that he opened fire on them with a stolen handgun says a source (New York Post). He sings: One sons died, his spirit is revisitin’ us / True and livin’ livin’ in us, resistance is us /… / That’s why we walk through Ferguson with our hands up.(15-18)
People resist and that makes the police think that they can just keep treating blacks unfairly and unequally. People walk with their hands up so that they don 't get shot or killed by the police, blacks logical reasoning to save themselves is by having their hands up so that there is no confusion if the person has a weapon or not, to save lives and have hope for the greater good.
Common mentions the two people that made history, to make people think, understand, be grateful for, it makes blacks feel goosebumps, see what Parks and King have gone through and done for them. King has made such a huge impact on people to this day and he continues to be a hero for everyone, he done a lot for the blacks to make equality between the blacks and whites, to stop injustice. Common …show more content…
Racial segregation is a major issue in today 's world, another major issue we have is ignorance and injustice, the author Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the economic Policy Institute, and he also is the senior fellow of chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law. In Richard Rothstein’s article “The Story Behind Ferguson” he expresses his emotional and logical reasoning to the different views about segregation and how the whites treated the blacks, the struggle for being a black trying to go to school. Rothstein mentions: “We cannot narrow the achievement gap to any significant extent in segregated schools. And we cannot desegregate schools unless we desegregate neighborhoods.” (32) He’s discussing the struggle for black kids to get good grades and become something, how teachers focus more on discipline rather than instructions, due to the blacks routinely getting ill due to malnourishment. The textbooks have different stories about segregation, and what the real truth is, not many people know how the fight went before blacks could finally afford homes, and schooling, when they no longer needed food stamps to support their families. It also talks about how whites tried to run the blacks