{"id":808053,"date":"2020-06-03T12:16:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T18:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1009606"},"modified":"2020-06-03T12:16:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T18:16:59","slug":"bruce-springsteen-we-remain-haunted-by-our-original-sin-of-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-we-remain-haunted-by-our-original-sin-of-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen: \u2018We Remain Haunted By Our Original Sin of Slavery\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bruce Springsteen<\/a> took to the SiriusXM airwaves on Wednesday morning to play songs as part of his ongoing Bruce Springsteen \u2014 From His Home to Yours<\/em> series on E Street Radio and reflect on the protest movement that has erupted all across America in the aftermath of George Floyd\u2019s death. The songs he picked throughout the two-hour broadcast were all about political protest and racial injustice.<\/p>\n

He began the show with his 2000 song \u201c41 Shots (American Skin),\u201d which he wrote about the death of unarmed Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo at the hands of the New York Police Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cEight minutes,\u201d Springsteen said. \u201cThat song is almost eight minutes long. That\u2019s how long it took George Floyd to die with a Minneapolis officer\u2019s knee buried into his neck. That\u2019s a long time. That\u2019s how long he begged for help and said he couldn\u2019t breathe. The arresting officer\u2019s response was nothing but silence and weight. Then he had no pulse. And still it went on\u2026May he rest in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we speak, 40 million people are unemployed,\u201d he continued. \u201c100,000 plus citizens have died from COVID-19 with only the most tepid and unfeeling response from our White House. As of today, our black citizens continue to be killed unnecessarily by our police on the streets of America. As of this broadcast, the country is on fire and in chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n