If there is one thing we should have learned by now "rocking" something or for something is not an effective method for social change. It failed in 1969 when thousands of self-described "flower children" swarmed into a small town about brought with them a carnival of sex and drugs featuring the most popular musicians of that day.
People hoped that this marked some kind of change in consciousness, they never defined what that was, but the hope was that this change would bring about the end of some of the worse aspects of our current social system. Of course, this failed.
The next thing people attempted to "rock" was the vote. I feel this failure needs no explaining. Now thanks to some media conglomerate a concert is being organized so we can finally have a "dialogue on racism" a hopefully dissuade enough people from adopting racist views so we might one day eliminate it from this society.
Farrell, Bruce Springsteen, John Legend, Pink and many more will be performing and hopefully if the people there have enough fun institutionalized racism should take a big hit! The logic is as follows. Subsidiaries of the same corporate media conglomerates who bring you news that vilifies black movements is going to really stick it to racism this time with a big old concert! The best part is they actually ask you donate your money to put on this charade. Come on television viewer this is your chance to make really history!
Seriously in the commercial they say, "let's make history tonight!" Apparently in between the performances of the corporate media's most prominent creations there will be some kind of discussion about racism and all the pain it causes. Confused? Yeah, I know I am. This is bullshit on a whole nother level. If you didn't yet hate this society I hope this information changed your mind.
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