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Rebel Diaz: Which Side Are You On?

Rebel Diaz: Which Side Are You On?
Wed, 5/6/2015
This article originally appeared on Telesur

The Chilean brothers of Rebel Diaz, a New York-based hip hop duo, released a new video entitled “Which Side Are You On,” which encouraged workers to join unions and impulse radical change.

“The Which Side Are You On REMIX came out on our Radical Dilemma album, but the time is NOW for the song and the message it represents,” Rebel Diaz wrote on their YouTube page.

“We are living historic moments of oppression, to which the people have the right to respond with historic moments of resistance.”

The lyrics, inspired by the U.S. folk song by musician and activist Pete Seeger, highlights various social ills within U.S. society, including political conformism, the prison industrial complex and economic inequality, while the video-clip includes numerous references to the recent police killings of Black men in the United States, including the latest in Baltimore with the death of Freddie Gray.

The song features hip-hop legends Dead Prez and Rakaa Iriscience from Dilated Peoples; a highlight of the video is when Rapper m1 of Dead Prez in the second verse takes shots at the traditional Black leadership by questioning their loyalty to the new generation radical Black activists.

Although the rapper slams the many “fence sitters" without naming them, the video clip then shows images of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, militants of the older generation of Black activists.

In a December 2014 article released in the Black Agenda Report, columnist Glen Ford condemned the role of such activists in the protests that followed the police killings of Black men, suggesting they engaged in a battle over leadership for the Black movement.

“The collaborating Black classes [Sharpton is now a Barack Obama’s adviser] moved quickly to limit Ferguson-related demands to those that were politically palatable to the president,” he stated. “The Al Sharptons of the community are attempting to isolate the core Ferguson activists and prevent the coalescing of a youth-led national Black movement.”

Originally published by Telesur

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