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Hold up on the "she is a c00n" comments brehs. :whoa:

She is singing American Skin (41 Shots) by Bruce Springsteen

It was written in response to the murder of Amadou Diallo, a Guinean immigrant who was famously killed when four plainclothes officers of the NYPD Street Crimes Unit fired 41 shots at him while he fled up his department stairs because he “matched the description” and pulled out a “gun” that turned out to be his wallet.

Song is 16 years old, and nothing has changed. :francis:



You’ve got to understand the rules
If an officer stops you, promise me you’ll always be polite
And that you’ll never ever run away
Promise Mama you’ll keep your hands in sight”


Is it a gun (is it a gun), is it a knife (is it a knife)
Is it a wallet (is it a wallet), this is your life (this is your life)
It ain’t no secret (it ain’t no secret)
It ain’t no secret (it ain’t no secret)
No secret my friend
You can get killed just for living in your American skin


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Leave Mary alone brehs, you guys are so mean. :mjcry:

Bruce Springsteen song is actually pretty good. :ehh:



 
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Hold up on the "she is a c00n" comments brehs. :whoa:

She is singing American Skin (41 Shots) by Bruce Springsteen

It was written in response to the murder of Amadou Diallo, a Guinean immigrant who was famously killed when four plainclothes officers of the NYPD Street Crimes Unit fired 41 shots at him while he fled up his department stairs because he “matched the description” and pulled out a “gun” that turned out to be his wallet.

Song is 16 years old, and nothing has changed. :francis:



You’ve got to understand the rules
If an officer stops you, promise me you’ll always be polite
And that you’ll never ever run away
Promise Mama you’ll keep your hands in sight”


Is it a gun (is it a gun), is it a knife (is it a knife)
Is it a wallet (is it a wallet), this is your life (this is your life)
It ain’t no secret (it ain’t no secret)
It ain’t no secret (it ain’t no secret)
No secret my friend
You can get killed just for living in your American skin


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Leave Mary alone brehs, you guys are so mean. :mjcry:

Bruce Springsteen song is actually pretty good. :ehh:










I'm not necessarily mad at the song

it's just the optics of how she's singing it

her sitting there in front of the potential next president of the US randomly singing during what's supposd to be an interview

of course, we don't know the context of it

maybe she's singing it to drive home a point to Hillary Clinton that black ppl are still facing the same issues we've been facing since the murder of Amadou Diallo

and if that's what it is, then okay

but for them to release just that snippet alone is dumb. Somebody in her PR dept or the PR dept of the network is supposed to prevent stuff like this from happening

that's what they're getting paid for
 

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After seeing that weird ass video, I literally feel like doign a KC and yelling "Marrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyy!"
 

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Hold up on the "she is a c00n" comments brehs. :whoa:

She is singing American Skin (41 Shots) by Bruce Springsteen

It was written in response to the murder of Amadou Diallo, a Guinean immigrant who was famously killed when four plainclothes officers of the NYPD Street Crimes Unit fired 41 shots at him while he fled up his department stairs because he “matched the description” and pulled out a “gun” that turned out to be his wallet.

Song is 16 years old, and nothing has changed. :francis:



You’ve got to understand the rules
If an officer stops you, promise me you’ll always be polite
And that you’ll never ever run away
Promise Mama you’ll keep your hands in sight”


Is it a gun (is it a gun), is it a knife (is it a knife)
Is it a wallet (is it a wallet), this is your life (this is your life)
It ain’t no secret (it ain’t no secret)
It ain’t no secret (it ain’t no secret)
No secret my friend
You can get killed just for living in your American skin


ETA
Leave Mary alone brehs, you guys are so mean. :mjcry:

Bruce Springsteen song is actually pretty good. :ehh:



:ohhh:
 

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worse part about this is this is supposed to represent black folks.

Like white ppl, asians, etc see this and think this is all of "us"
 

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This video did the impossible....it made me actually feel bad for Hillary Clinton. How tf was she supposed to react to that as it was happening?

Thing is, most of is would be giving her awkward stares too. If this was some random bytch we'd be like :comeon: and cut her off, but it's Mary so we'd be all :jbhmm: the whole time like Clinton while trying to keep the :dahell: face from coming out
I was dying laughing at Hillary's face when she first started singing and then when she grabbed her hand...:mjlol:
 
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