Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello Shares New Protest Song “Stand Up”: Listen
Rage Against the Machine co-founder Tom Morello has shared a new song whose proceeds go to the NAACP, Know Your Rights Camp, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Marsha P. Johnson Institute. The track, titled “Stand Up,” is a collaboration with Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds, producer the Bloody Beetroots, and artist/activist Shea Diamond. Hear it below.
Tom Morello addresses police brutality and systemic racism on “Stand Up.” He sings on the track, “When I call the police will they just kill me?/Will they just kill you?/When I call the police will they just protect me cause I’m white skinned too?”
Morello stated in a press release:
I grew up in the tiny lily white, archly conservative town of Libertyville, Illinois. When I was a kid, someone hung a noose in my family’s garage, there was occasional N-word calling, etc, etc. On June 6 of this year, there was a Black Lives Matter rally and march in that same town that drew over 1,000 people.
It seems that the times, they are a’changin’. I was so inspired that night, I reached out to Dan from Imagine Dragons. The Bloody Beetroots and I had conjured a slamming track and within 24 hours Dan had sent back a completed vocal. We got Shea Diamond, a Black transgender woman with a long history of activism, on the track and the coalition was complete.
Find more resources in the fight against police brutality and systemic racism, including a list of organizations to donate to if you’re able, here.
Originally Appeared on Pitchfork
