It was hip hop that sparked the Arab revolutionthe ongoing oppression in Tunisia under Ben Ali resulted in the need to change politics in a time of government suppression Hip Hop became a new outlet for excluded political voices and became a subversive tactic used to spread revolutionary ideas and most importantly the truth as Robin Wright states
The Hip-Hop Rhythm of Arab Revolt 2011
[July 25, The Wall Street Journal http://hiphopdiplomacy.org/2011/07/25/the-hip-hop-rhythm-of-arab-revolt/]
The Arab Spring is widely known….“I read the Koran.” Then she went on singing.
It is this song “Rais Lebled” that caught on like wildfire it was played at different Revolution and created solidarity among different groups in the Arab Spring Bobby Ghosh explains that
Ghosh 2011 [Rage, Rap and Revolution: Inside the Arab Youth Quake; Bobby Thursday, Feb. 17, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2050022,00.html]
At 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 15….silent, moderate majority.
Ghosh 2011 [Rage, Rap and Revolution: Inside the Arab Youth Quake; Bobby Thursday, Feb. 17, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2050022,00.html]
The revolution of the young… world are not done yet.
The resolution is backward- they don’t want our assistance
Jahjah 2011
[Dyab Abou, 31 August They called us crazy; Open Democracy: Free thinking for the world.http://www.opendemocracy.net/dyab-abou-jahjah/they-called-us-crazy]
They called us crazy….they must emulate it.
POST-COLD WAR THE UNITED STATES AND CORPORATE POWER HAVE MERGED TO BECOME ONE AND TODAY THE US EXHIBITED TENDANCIES OF AN INVERTED TOTALITARIANISM TO MAINTAIN A MANAGED DEMOCRACY- A POPULATION PASSIVE TO A STATE THAT CONTINUES TO TEST THE LIMITS OF THE EARTH AND ALL OTHER BOUNDARIES
Wolin 2008 [ Sheldon. Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism. Xvi]
That conviction supported and was……accepting political passivity.
Hallward 11 (Peter, teaches at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, “Arab uprisings mark a turning point for the taking,” The Guardian, February 22, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/22/arab-uprisings-world-order-middle-east, Sydnor)
In the late 1940s, Simone…however, that it will only prevail if we allow it to.