{"id":98,"date":"2023-11-08T19:57:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T19:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/2023\/11\/08\/american-rapper-macklemore-this-is-a-genocide\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T07:04:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T07:04:02","slug":"american-rapper-macklemore-this-is-a-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/2023\/11\/08\/american-rapper-macklemore-this-is-a-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"American Rapper Macklemore &#8211; \u201cthis is a Genocide\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"American Rapper Macklemore - \u201cthis is a Genocide\u201d\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_AjWPiq_YMA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap is-cnvs-dropcap-bordered\">Speaking at Pro-Palestine Washington D.C. protest this week, American rapper, singer and songwriter, took a strong and risky stance to stand up for humanity when he told the crowds: \u201cwe have been taught to just be complicit. To protect our careers, protect our interests. And I\u2019m not going to do that anymore. I\u2019m not afraid to speak the TRUTH.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He spoke of his 8-year-old daughter who asked him how the people in Palestine will know what we are doing. He said \u201cthe whole world is watching what we do right now.\u201d His speech roused the crowds to chant \u201cFREE, FREE PALESTINE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is reminiscent of the movement started in the late 1980s when the WHOLE WORLD WAS WATCHNG and chanting \u201cFREE NELSON MANDELA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We did it then. WE CAN DO IT NOW!<br \/>\nWE THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER!<\/p>\n<p>WATCH &amp; SHARE<\/p>\n<p>#ceasefirenow #FreePalestine #Interfaith #StandWithUs #Truth #Palestine #Gaza #Humanrights #BoycottZionist #AntiZionismisNotAntiSemitism #palestine #gaza #Israel#newzealand #Gaza #ceasefirenow #Jordan #SaudiArabia #UAE #Morocco #Bahrain #Kuwait #Lebanon #Syria #Iraq #Oman<\/p>\n<p>\u2757\ufe0fDM me for credit or removal request (no copyright intended)<br \/>\n\u00a9\ufe0f All rights and credits reserved to the respective owner(s)<\/p>\n<p>English Script:<br \/>\nMacklemore:<\/p>\n<p>00:00:03:22 &#8211; 00:00:36:18<br \/>\nBut I know enough that this is a genocide and we are scared. We are watching it unfold. We have been taught to just be complicit, to protect our careers, to protect our interests. And I&#8217;m not going to do it anymore. I&#8217;m not afraid to speak the truth. You know, my daughter said to me this morning, she said, she&#8217;s eight years old.<\/p>\n<p>00:00:36:18 &#8211; 00:01:11:07<br \/>\nShe said, Dad, when we protest today, when we march today, how are the people in Palestine going to know that we&#8217;re showing up? Look at this. Look at this. The world is watching what we do right now in this moment of injustice. There is no side in  humanity. We lead with our hearts. We speak the truth. We shut down the propaganda and we march forward.<\/p>\n<p>00:01:11:11 &#8211; 00:01:13:20<br \/>\nFree, free Palestine,<\/p>\n<p>00:01:15:20 &#8211; 00:01:20:01<br \/>\nFree, free Palestine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at Pro-Palestine Washington D.C. protest this week, American rapper, singer and songwriter, took a strong and risky stance to stand up for humanity when he told the crowds: \u201cwe&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,35,37,33],"tags":[],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-daizy-gedeon","category-israel-hamas-war","category-israel-hamas-war-live-updates","category-middle-east-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}