Fight The Power

When I first started reading Marx in college, I had a really hard time with Marx.

Where I understood Marx is when Chuck D from Public Enemy, I read his memoir called Fight the Power, where I was like, "Oh, this is the material needs of a people.

Who owns the means of product? I got you now," right? But it's Chuck D from Public Enemy who's making it apparent to me.

It's not Marx.

Life Goes On.

Life Goes On, who did a killer version that you can see on the internet of Fight the Power.

I have seen that,

yep.

It was about him succeeding in life and doing things.

And they said, here's a good idea.

Corky, you go out and you do a very long version of Fight the Power by Public Enemy about the trials and travails of the black man throughout U.S. history and fighting back against the power.

And there we went.

The fight for freedom is now.

And this is, again, in the late 1980s and early 1990s when they released their track Fight the Power.

But the S1Ws as they were, you know, kind of commonly referred to or security of the first world was a kind of elite militant style security and dance troupe that would perform with public enemy.

So you would see them on stage performing alongside.

It wasn't until I got into my 20s and kind of left my house and went out on my own to do things that I started getting into, like, watching John Wayne movies because, of course, Public Enemy, mother eff him and John Wayne.

That line in Fight the Power always kinda made me a little hesitant to watch John Wayne films.

And over the years, of course, hearing from people, you know, "Oh, he..." You know, the way they portray Native Americans.

And of course, being a Latino, there's a connective tissue to any minority group that gets kind of abused in filming and whatever, or having white people play Native Americans.

They could be.

Fight the power.

I, I...

This has the potential to be a dumb question.

So-

The first 10 seconds of Fight the Power, when we hear, "Bumpta, bumpta, bump, bumpda, bump-"

That's me.

That is from that record.