Common said working on the film Selma turned him into an activist and that a recent seven-month stay in London, where police don’t carry guns, “felt like a weight was off my shoulders” as he …
turned him into an activist and that a recent seven-month stay in London, where police don’t carry guns, “felt like a weight was off my shoulders” as he talked over his life and career at an event awarding him theNYC Mayor Eric Adams made a surprise cameo at the fest, which has been dotting the city with films, talks and music for 21 years now except during pandemic-shuttered 2020. “I think about this amazing festival which opened after 9-11 when no one thought we could come back.
Common first got political back when President George W. Bush entered office. “I didn’t feel like he was really going to do good for our people. And he kind of had this loopy personality.” Under President Obama, he was excoriated by Fox for attending a spoken word event at the White House his lyrics that protested police conduct and President Bush’s launching the war in Iraq.
“This country was taken from the Native Americans and this country was built on slavery. and at one point we were considered three-fifths of a human being. Can you image living life and they are saying you are three-fifths of a human being. We carry that. We carry that generational trauma and the leaders haven’t addressed the issues, the trauma.”
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